She went to Holland in 1955, where she studied Russian in the language of Dutch. She listened to him playing a piece then played it back to him - by ear. He dismissed her because she refused to read by sight. In her teens she studied guitar with Sophocles Pappas (one of Segovia's pupils). Peggy learned to transcribe music when she was 11 years old. The Seeger family has been involved in folk music in the USA for over a half-century. Her brother Mike was a virtuoso on several dozen instruments. Peggy's half-brother Pete is considered the father (now great-grandfather) of the American folk-revival since 1946. Peggy's father was Charles Louis Seeger, a pioneer of ethnomusicology at the University of California (Los Angeles), where he invented and developed the melograph, an electronic means of notating music. Her works have been widely performed and recorded. She went on to become one of the United States' foremost female composers of this century. It enabled her to study in Europe (1930-31) and to visit fellow musicians and composers. Peggy's mother was Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first woman to be awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Music.
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