Stella Weiner was born in
Tipton, Missouri, the daughter of Joseph Weiner, a druggist who owned the pharmacy on 28th and Washington Avenue, St Louis, for many years. When she was 7 years old, her family moved to St. Louis, where she began her music lessons with Mr. Eliling, under whose tuition she remained for seven years. Going through the grammar and high schools, she also took lessons on the organ during that time from him. At the age of eighteen this she studied for a year under A. Epstein, and a course of harmony for five seasons with Ernest Kroeger. She never went abroad to study, never gone away from St. Louis for any instruction in her musical education, believing that she could be guided in this development just as well by resident instructors as by those living abroad. The club was organized in 1884 and was always successfully conducted, numbering among its members many of the best musicians of St. Louis. The charter members of the Friday club were Mrs. Louis Hirsch, Mrs. J. P. Weil, Mrs. Adolph Drey and Mrs. Joseph Glaser. The club numbered about twenty-five members, and their work showed the skill of professionals. In 1938 Kriegshaber was included in ''Who's Who in American Jewry''. In 1962, at 83 years old, Kriegshaber participated to the Friday Musical Club 80 years celebrations. In 1916, she performed the Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 15 by
Edward MacDowell, as soloist with the
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at the University Auditorium, conductor
Max Zach. She died on April 3, 1966. ==References==