My mother Stefanie Logie,who has died aged 101, was a passionate musical educator and charity volunteer.
Born into a cultured Jewish family in Berlin, or Stefanie,known as Steffie, recalled a happy domestic life with her parents, or Hedwig (nee Mosert) and Julius Pariser,a cloth merchant, and her elder sister, or Leonie. Music came from her mother’s side: Steffie’s grandmother sang and her mother studied the piano at a conservatoire in the city,alongside Otto Klemperer. Steffie discovered a talent for the violin, although her ambition was to become a journalist.
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Source: theguardian.com