See also
| Husband: | Jean Vallier (1864-1942) | |
| Wife: | Adela Verne (1877-1952) | |
| Children: | John Vallier (1920-1991) | |
| Name: | Jean Vallier | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 1864 | Belgium |
| Occupation | -; Opera singer | |
| Death | 1942 (age 77-78) | |
| Name: | Adela Verne | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | John Evangelist Wurm (c. 1828-1892) | |
| Mother: | Marie Sophie Niggl (c. 1833-1882) | |
| Birth | 27 Feb 1877 | 12 Portland Street, Southampton |
| Birth fact | 1877 (age 0) | 1877 Mar Qtr, Southampton, 2c/42 (registered as Adeline Victorine Pauline Wurm) |
| Census | 1881 (age 3-4) | Living with mother in Penge |
| Census | 1891 (age 13-14) | Living with father in Southampton |
| Residence | 12 Apr 1897 (age 20) | 207 Camberwell Grove, Denmark Hill, London SE (Source: http://www.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk/catalogue/10803) |
| Census | 1901 (age 23-24) | Professional pianist, living with sister Mathilde in Chelsea, unmarried |
| Census | 1911 (age 33-34) | Pianist, living with sister Mathilde Verne |
| Death | 4 Feb 1952 (age 74) | 67 Earls Court Square, London |
| Name: | John Vallier | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1920 | |
| Death | 1991 (age 70-71) | |
The concert pianist Adela Verne was the most celebrated of the musical Verne (Wurm) sisters. She made her London concert debut at the age of fourteen in 1891, and shortly afterwards she embarked on concert tours to Canada and Australia. A favourite of Henry Wood, she performed frequently at the Promenade Concerts at the Queens Hall. Subsequently she resumed her career of foreign concert tours which continued until after the First World War.
In the 1920s she was based in Chicago, before returning to England in 1932.
Adela Verne made a number of recordings, and in 1938 she wrote a march for the queen (Queen Elizabeth's March, recorded by the band of the Grenadier Guards).
Along with most of her other sisters, Adela changed her name to Verne in 1893 after the death of their father John Wurm.
Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Adela Verne was the youngest of the 3 Verne pianists. She studied with her sister Mathilde perhaps Clara Schumann's greatest pupil as she was too young to go to Germany and study with Clara. Later she became a pupil and lifelong friend of Paderewski who called her the woman who plays like a man. After Carreno's death she was the greatest woman pianist of her time. Tchaikowsky wanted to meet the 13 year old who played his B flat minor Concerto with such success at the Cyrstal Palace. Her career was very long lasting till shortly before her death in 1952 before she could play the recital scheduled for the opening of the Royal Festival Hall d/s 1915.
http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrumental80.html (accessed 13.6.2011)
For more information on the Verne sisters and John Vallier, see the family website: http://www.keyboardgiants.com/