1919, NEW YORK, USA: The Hungarian-american pianist YOLANDA MERO IRION (1887 1963). Also was a opera and theatre impresario, and philanthropist who supported destitute musicians. In the US she played concertos under the baton of Gustav Mahler, Leopold Stokowski and others. Yolanda Mero made a number of piano rolls, of music by Bach, Beethoven, Sergei Bortkiewicz, Cécile Chaminade, Debussy, Dohnányi, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, Moszkowski, Mozart, Anton Rubinstein, Schubert, Sinding, Johann Strauss II, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Max Vogrich and Wagner. She made only one 78rpm recording