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Frdrique Petrides , , was a BelgianAmerican conductor and violinist. In 1933, she founded and conducted the Orchestrette Classique in New York. It consisted of women musicians and premiered works by then relatively untried American composers, such as Paul Creston, Samuel Barber and David Diamond, that are now widely played and celebrated. She also edited and published the groundbreaking newsletter, Women in Music, which highlighted the activities of professional women musicians throughout the ages.
Frdrique Petrides was born Frdrique Jeanne Elisabeth Petronella Mayer, into a luxurious life in Antwerp, Belgium on September 26, 1903, which she later shared with two younger brothers, Jan and Gottfried. She was daughter to Joseph Heinrich Friedrich Mayer, a prominent industrialist and art collector, and Sraphine Sebrechts Mayer, a wellknown pianist, composer and teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, who was also an accomplished painter and photographer.
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