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Baker's biographical dictionary of musicians, 1919
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1LEYBACH—LICHTENBERG
3Domnich 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, Apr. 2, 1802, d. Oberlössnitz, n. Dresden, Feb. 9, 1881), was 1st horn in the royal orch. at Dresden.
5Leybach, Ignace, b. Gumbsheim, 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 vols. (350 pieces); concert-pieces f. harmonium; motets and songs w. org.; etc.
7Lhévinne, Joseph, distinguished pianist; b. Moscow, Dec. 3, 1874. Began to study the pf. at the age of 5; pupil of Safonov at the Moscow Cons., where he won the virtuoso diploma and gold medal; début in 1889 at Moscow with Beethoven's 'Emperor' concerto (A. Rubinstein conducting); winner of the Rubinstein Prize (Berlin, 1895); 1900–2, teacher of pf. at the school of the Imp. Russ. Mus. Soc. at Tiflis; 1902–6, prof. at the Moscow Cons.; since then living as teacher in Berlin; on his extended concert-tours of Europe and America he has met with most emphatic success. His Amer. début took place with the Russ. Symph. Orch. in New York, Jan. 27, 1906; subsequent tours, 1908–9, '12–3, '15–6. He is a player in the grand style.
9Liadov [l'yah'-], Anatole, b. Petrograd, May 11, 1855; d. there August, 1914. Studied at the Cons. under Johansen (cpt. and fugue) and Rimsky-Korsakov (mus. form and instrumentation). From 1878, prof. of harmony and theory at the P. Cons.; also to the Imp. Chapel. From 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. For orch.: Op. 10, Scherzo; op. 16, do.; op. 19, Mazurka (Près de la guinguette); op. 21b, Ballade; op. 49, Polonaise; op. 55, do.; 3 symph. poems (op. 56, Baba Yaga; op. 62, Le Lac enchanté; op. 63, Kiki-mora); op. 28, choruses w. orch. to Schiller's Braut von Messina; op. 60, do. to Maeterlinck's Sœur Béatrice. A ballet, Leila and Adelai, was left unfinished.
11Lia'punov, Serge Michailovitch, born Yaroslav, Russia, Nov. 30, 1859. Student 1878–83 at Moscow Cons. under Klindworth and Pabst (pf.), and Hubert, Tchaikovsky and S. Tanéiev (comp.). From 1884–1902 sub-director of the Imperial Choir at Petrograd; 1902–10, inspector of music at St. Helen's Inst.; since 1910 prof. at the Cons. in Petrograd. Has appeared as cond. (by invitation) in Berlin and Leipzig (1907), and as pianist in Germany and Austria (1910–11); attended the mus. congress in Rome (1911) as representative of the Russian government. He is 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). Works: For orch.: Op. 2, Ballade; op. 4, Pf.-concerto No. 1; op. 7, Ouverture solennelle (on Russian themes); op. 12, Symphony in B m.; op. 16, Polonaise; op. 28, Rapsodie f. pf. and orch. (on Ukrainian themes); op. 37, Yelasova Vola, symph. poem; op. 38, Pf.-concerto No. 2; for pf.: Op. 1, Trois morceaux; op. 6, Sept préludes; op. 11, Douze études d'exécution transcendante; etc.; songs. Has ed. the correspondence between Tchaikovsky and Balakirev (1912; in Russian).
13Libon [li-bohn'], Philippe, b. (of French parents) Cadiz, Spain, Aug. 17, 1775; d. Paris, Feb. 5, 1838. Pupil of Viotti in London; 1796, chamber-virtuoso in Lisbon; 1798, in the R. orch. in Madrid; settled in Paris in 1800, and became member of the court orch. and chamber musician to the Empress Josephine. Publ. 6 concertos for vl. and orch.; 6 str.-trios; 3 Duos concertants; 2 vols. of Airs variés; Trente caprices f. vl. solo.
15Lichey [li'yhi], Reinhold, organ-virtuoso; b. Pohlsdorf, n. Liegnitz, Mar. 26, 1879. Pupil of Baumert and Rudnick in Breslau, completing his studies at the Kgl. Hochschule in Berlin (1901–4); 1905, org. in Aachen; since 1907 org. at the Haberberger Trinitatis-Kirche, mus.-teacher at the Realgymnasium, and cond. of the Oratorien-Verein in Königsberg. Has publ. a number of compositions for organ, motets, male choruses, etc.
17Lich'ner, Heinrich, b. Harpersdorf, Silesia, Mar. 6, 1829; d. Breslau, Jan. 7, 1898. Pupil of Karow, at Bunzlau; Dehn, at Berlin; and Mosewius, Baumgart, and Ad. Hesse, at Breslau, where he became cantor and org. 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.
19Lich'tenberg, Leopold, violin-virtuoso; born 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.
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