Ormandy met harpist Stephanie ("Steffy") Goldner when he joined the Capitol Theater Orchestra in 1921, and they married in August 1922. Two years later, she joined the New York Philharmonic - a notable event, as it marked the first appointment of a woman to the orchestra. When Ormandy moved to Minneapolis, she remained in her position with the Philharmonic, but in March 1932, near the end of Ormandy's first season in Minneapolis, she resigned. During the early 1930s, she gave birth to two children who died in their infancy.

In 1946, ten years after their move to Philadelphia, the Ormandys separated and eventually divorced in August 1947. Three years later, Ormandy married Margaret Frances (Gretel) Hitsch, a native of Vienna who had immigrated to the United States some years earlier, and they were together for the remainder of Ormandy's life. Stephanie Ormandy moved to Haverford, Pennsylvania, where she lived until 1953, when she moved to New York City, where she played in pit orchestras on Broadway. (She played harp on the 1956 original Broadway cast recording of My Fair Lady.) She died of pancreatic cancer in 1962 in California, where her older sister Julia Goldner Elbogen was living.

Fig. 2: A review of Steffy Ormandy's debut as a soloist with the Minneapolis Symphony in Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299. She had resigned her position with the New York Philharmonic a few weeks earlier.

Fig. 3: Steffy Ormandy returned for a repeat performance of the concerto during the 1932-33 season.