Emil von Sauer: Liszt's Forgotten Protégé

Anita Crocus is a Welsh-born American. She obtained an undergraduate degree in Latin American studies from the University of the Américas in Mexico City, where her mentor and advisor was Professor Franz von Sauer, the youngest son of Emil von Sauer and Angélica Morales von Sauer. After teaching European history at the American-British-Canadian School in Mexico City, she earned a master's degree in secondary education from Indiana University before serving as a State Department staff member in the American Embassy in Buenos Aires, in Washington, DC, and at the MBFR disarmament negotiations in Vienna, Austria. Thereafter relocating to the Pacific Northwest, she was a technical editor and writer for twenty-five years. Maintaining a life-long passion for opera, chamber, and symphonic music, she is a legacy member of the Theodore Thomas Society with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.