Born: 9 August 1907, Switzerland
Died: 29 January 2002
Country most active: United States
Also known as: NA
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Suzanne Bloch (Aug. 9, 1907, Geneva, Switzerland – Jan. 29, 2002, Manhattan, New York) was a Swiss born American musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century. She moved to New York in 1916 when her father, composer Ernst Bloch, began his teaching and conducting responsibilities in American cities. Bloch studied music in Paris, Berlin, and England from 1925 through the next decade although she was largely self-taught in playing ancient instruments. Bloch played lute, recorder and virginal, sang, and lectured on Renaissance music at her concerts and in her classes at the Juilliard School, where she taught from 1942 to 1985. She was also the leading authority on her father’s music and promoted it worldwide. Bloch founded the Ernest Bloch Society in 1967, which has held the Bay Music Festival devoted to his music every summer since 1990, in Newport, Ore.