The reason he moved to Paris was to be near his daughter Susan Steell, who had won the first scholarship for American girls to study singing in Paris with the French mezzo-soprano Blanche Marchesi that was established in 1923 by the opera singer Marie Jeritza.
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Tryphosa believed she had a good singing voice and was encouraged by friends and relatives, eventually studying classical singing with several famous teachers, including Giovanni Sgambati, Blanche and Mathilde Marchesi, Sir George Henschel, B. T. Lang, as well as Veda, Bimboni, and Giraudet.