Mrs. Frida Hermanntz Glyckherr Tanner was a St. Louis musician, music teacher, and composer who wrote between 1860 and 1900. She was born in the Dominion of Wurtemberg (today a state within modern Germany). She was raised by her uncle Baron von Wagner and brought up as a musical prodigy. She would marry her first husband Baron A.C. Glyckherr von Boldeneck, MD in 1842, making her a Baroness, and would soon have a son and daughter, Charles and Albertina. They emigrated to America in 1848 at the start of the German revolution. By 1850 they had settled in the St. Louis area, having lost much of their fortune. With the start of the Gold Rush, the Baron decided to trek to California. After finding nothing and losing more money he started for home but would end up dying of fever en route. Frida, left to fend for herself and children, taught music at the Sacred Heart school in St. Charles and elsewhere in the St. Louis region. As her children reached adulthood, her daughter Albertina married James M. Loring; her son would go to St. Louis University and then move to Oklahoma with his wife. By 1870 Frida was married to Henry Tanner; her remarriage allowed her more free time to pursue her passion for composing music. She became known for her compositions entered at the annual St. Louis Exposition. Her master work was an operetta, Watouska, or the White Lily. The purchase of a bank vault for the scores, copyright and printing plates suggests a belief that if the opera achieved popularity, the potential to reprint easily could provide a welcome revenue stream. Her second husband would die in 1885, leaving her twice a widow. At the end of her life she became known for her music and compositions not only in St. Louis, but also in Chicago, where opinion pieces were published on her music. She would hold property throughout St. Louis City and County and had money stashed away, according to her will. At the end of her life she sold her operetta and had the royalties divided between her children. Frida Glyckherr Tanner died on Thursday, March 22, 1900 at her residence at No. 12 S. 15th St., St. Louis, MO.