Marie Hall was a British violinist. She was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and received her first lessons from her father, a harpist in the Carl Rosa Opera Company orchestra. She also studied with the local teacher Hildegarde Werner.
Her family later spent several years in Guarlford, a small village near Malvern. When Hall was nine, Émile Sauret heard her play and advised that she be sent to the Royal College of Music in London, though her parents did not follow this recommendation. She subsequently studied with Edward Elgar in 1894, August Wilhelmj in London in 1896, Max Mossel in Birmingham in 1898, and Professor Cruse in London in 1900. In 1901, on Jan Kubelík's advice, she moved to Prague to study with his former teacher, Otakar Ševčík.
Hall made her debuts in Prague in November 1902, Vienna in January 1903, and London on 16 February 1903; her concerts were highly successful. She was noted for her strong technique, which she attributed to Ševčík's teaching, as well as for her endurance on lengthy tours and demanding programmes.
Ralph Vaughan Williams completed his Romance for violin and orchestra, later known as The Lark Ascending, with Hall's assistance and dedicated it to her. She gave its first public performance with piano at a concert of the Avonmouth and Shirehampton Choral Society on 15 December 1920, and its orchestral public performance with the British Symphony Orchestra at Queen's Hall, conducted by Adrian Boult, on 14 June 1921. Hall owned and played one of the two Viotti Stradivari violins.
In 1911 she married her manager, Edward Baring, and they settled in Cheltenham, where they had a daughter, Pauline. In 1916 she recorded an abridged version of Elgar's Violin Concerto, conducted by the composer. Hall spent her final years at Inveresk, a large Victorian villa in Cheltenham, and died there on 11 November 1956.
The 1709 Stradivari violin she played for more than fifty years became known as the Marie Hall Stradivarius. It was sold at Sotheby's in April 1988 for a record £473,000 to an anonymous South American bidder.