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A biographical dictionary of musicians. [With portraits from drawings in pen and ink, 1900
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1Paris. He became conductor at Covent Garden, Drury Lane (1868–74, and later), the Haymarket, etc., and brought out several operas and operettas (the first was Fanchette, 1864); also music to Anthony and Cleopatra; various pantomimes; 3 cantatas; many songs; pf.-pieces, etc.
3Levi, Hermann, noted conductor; b. Giessen, Nov. 7, 1839. Pupil of V. Lachner at Mannheim 1852–5, and of the Leipzig Cons. 1855–8; mus. dir. at Saarbrücken 1859–61; conductor of the German Opera at Rotterdam 1861–4; court Kapellm. at Karlsruhe 1864–72; from 1872, court Kapellm. at Munich. App. "Generalmusikdirector" at Munich in 1894; resigned on account of ill-health, and pensioned, in 1896.
5Levi (or Levy, Lewy), Jacob. See LEBERT.
7Lewandowski [-dov'-], Louis, b. Wreschen, Posen, Apr. 3, 1823; d. Berlin, Feb. 4, 1894. Pupil of the School of Composition of the Berlin Akademie; mus. dir. of the Berlin Synagogue from 1840. Co-founder of the Inst. for Aged and Indigent Musicians, which owes its flourishing condition in great part to him. His main work was as a singing-teacher; he comp. orchestral, vocal, and chamber-music.
9Lewy, Eduard Constantin, horn-virtuoso; b. Saint-Avold, Moselle, Mar. 3, 1796; d. Vienna, June 3, 1846. Pupil of Domnich in the Paris Cons.; from 1822, 1st horn at the Vienna Court Opera, and prof. in the Cons.—Joseph-Rodolphe, his brother and pupil (b. Nancy, 1804, d. Oberlössnitz, n. Dresden, Feb. 9, 1881), was 1st horn in the royal orch. at Dresden.
11Lewy, Charles, son of Ed. C. L.; pianist and salon-composer; b. Lausanne, 1823; d. Vienna, Apr. 30, 1883.—His brother, Richard Levy, b. Vienna, 1827, d. there Dec. 31, 1883, was a player on the French horn, and a member of the court orch. at 13; later, Inspector-in-Chief, and stage-manager, of the court opera. Noted singing-teacher (Mallinger, Sembrich, and Lucca were among his pupils).
13Leybach, Ignace, b. Gambsheim, Alsatia, July 17, 1817; d. Toulouse, May 23, 1891. Pupil, in Paris, of Pixis, Kalkbrenner, and Chopin; in 1844, organist at Toulouse Cathedral. Excellent pianist and teacher. His pf.-pieces (225 numbers) are "easy, pretentious, and pleasing" (e.g., Nocturnes op. 3 and 4; "Aux-bords du Ganges" [Mendelssohn], op. 42; Boléro brillant, op. 61; Ballade, op. 19; Valse poétique, op. 216; "Les batelières de Naples"); he also publ. an extensive Organ-method in 3 vol.s (350 pieces); concert-pieces f. harmonium; motets and songs w. org.; etc.
15Liadoff (or Liadow), Anatole, b. St. Petersburg, Apr. 29, 1855. Studied at the Cons. under Johansen (cpt. and fugue) and Rimsky-Korsakov (mus. form and instrumentation). Since 1878, prof. of harmony and theory at the St. P. Cons.; also to the Imp. Chapel. Since 1894, conductor of the concerts of the Mus. Soc. His works, chiefly f. pf., are technically difficult, and of elegant and distinguished originality: Op. 3, Six morceaux; op. 4, four Arabesques; op. 7 and 8, Intermezzi; op. 11, Prelude and Mazurka; op. 13, four preludes; op. 20, Novellette; op. 21, Ballade; op. 28, three Preludes; op. 31, Deux morceaux; further, mazurkas, waltzes, impromptus, bagatelles, idyls, sketches, etc.
17Lia'punov (or Liapounow), Serge Michailovitch, b. Jaroslavl, Russia, Nov. 18, 1859. Student 1878–83 at Moscow Cons. under Klindworth and Pabst (pf.), and Hubert (comp.). He is sub-director of the Imperial Choir at St. Petersburg, and a member of the Imp. Geographical Soc., in which latter capacity he was commissioned in 1893 to collect the folk-songs in the Governments of Vologda, Viatna, and Kostroma (publ. w. pf.-accomp. in 1897); since 1894, he is also music-master to Grand Duke Michel Alexandrovitch.—Publ. works: Op. 1, Étude, Intermezzo, and Valse, f. pf.; op. 4, pf.-concerto; op. 5, Impromptu f. pf.; op. 6, 7 Preludes f. pf.—Unpubl.: A Ballade, an Ouverture solennelle, and a symphony, f. orch.
19Libe'lius. Incorrect spelling of SIBELIUS.
21Lich'ner, Heinrich, b. Harpersdorf, Silesia, Mar. 6, 1829; d. Breslau, Jan. 8, 1898. Pupil of Karow, at Bunzlau; Dehn, at Berlin; and Mosewius, Baumgart, and Ad. Hesse, at Breslau, where he became cantor and organist of the Church of the 11,000 Virgins, and cond. of the Sängerbund.—Works: Popular pf.-pieces (rather commonplace sonatinas, etc.); psalms, choral music, and songs.
23Lich'tenberg, Leopold, violin-virtuoso; b. San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 22, 1861. Taught by Beaujardin, he played in a concert at 8; at 12, Wieniawski took him as his pupil and aid on a tour through the United States. Later, after 6 months under Lambert at Paris, L. rejoined Wieniawski at Brussels, and studied hard for 3 years, then winning the first prize of honor at the national "concours." A successful tour in Holland was followed by a season in New York, etc., with Th. Thomas, when L. made a 3-year European tournée, another successful American trip, lived in Boston for some time as a member of the Symphony Orch., and is now (1899) head of the violin-department in the National Cons. at New York. Both in technical finish and emotional power, L. ranks high among living virtuosi.
25Lich'tenstein, Karl August, Freiherr von,
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