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1position he resigned after the pronounced success of his Wiener Frauen there in Nov. of that year. Since then he has been living in Vienna, devoting himself entirely to comp. L. is deservedly one of the most popular composers of light opera; his music, like that of his famous predecessors, Strauss and Suppé, makes an instant appeal through its unaffected simplicity, piquant rhythm and beautiful melody; like theirs, the scores of L. are also well written and orchestrated. His greatest success is still Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow; Vienna, Dec. 30, 1905); since then it has had innumerable perfs. throughout the U. S. and Europe; in Buenos Aires it was played simultaneously in five theaters and five languages (1907). Through this one work both composer and publisher have become millionaires. L. is Knight of the Order of Isabella (Spain), of the Sun and of the Lion (Persia), and Officer of Public Instruction (France).—Works: The opera Kukuška (Leipzig, 1896; rewritten as Tatjana, Brünn, 1905); and the operettas (most premières at Vienna) Wiener Frauen (1902; in Berlin as Der Klavierstimmer; rewritten as Der Schlüssel zum Paradiese, Leipzig, 1906), Der Rastelbinder (1902), Die Juxheirat (1904), Der Göttergatte (1904), Die lustige Witwe (1905), Peter und Paul reisen ins Schlaraffenland (1906), Mitislav, der Moderne (1907), Edelweiss und Rosenstock (priv. perf., 1907), Der Mann mit den drei Frauen (1908), Das Fürstenkind (1909), Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909), Zigeunerliebe (1901), Eva (1911), Die ideale Gattin (1913), Endlich allein (1914), Der Sterngucker (1917), Wo die Lerche singt (Budapest, 1918), Die blaue Mazur (1920), Die Tangokönigin (1921), Frühling (a 'Singspiel'; 1922), Schön ist die Welt, Frasquita (1922), La Danza delle Libellule (Milan, 1922), Die gelbe Jacke (1923), Cloclo (1924), Paganini (1925), Friederike (Berlin, 1928), Das Land des Lächelns (1929; revised and perf. at Vienna State Opera, 1938), Giuditta (1934). The later operettas are more operatic in style. Several of the chief tenor rôles have been created by Richard Tauber. Besides the above stage-works, L. has written Ungarische Fantasie for vln. and small orch. (op. 45); Huldigungsouvertüre; Ein Märchen aus [address hidden]; Il Guado, symph. poem for orch. and pf.; Eine Vision, overture; a symph. poem, Fieber (1916); a song-cycle, Musikalischer Roman (words by Pierre Benoît; Paris, 1937); other songs; numerous marches and dances for orch. (90 op.-numbers).—Cf. E. Decsey, F. L. (Vienna, 1924; 2nd ed. Munich, 1930); A. Frh. v. Lehár, Unsere Mutter (1930); A. Rivoire, Une Heure de musique avec F. L. (Paris, 1930).
3Lehmann [lā'-], Friedrich J., b. Cleveland, O., Sept. 17, 1866. Began to st. the piano at the age of 7; ent. Oberlin Cons., where he cont. the pf. and also st. voice and theory; later pupil of F. von Bose and G. Schreck in Leipzig. 1902–32, prof. of theory in Oberlin Cons.; retired in 1932; now (1940) living in Oberlin, O. Has publ. A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in [address hidden] (N. Y., 1907); Harmonic Analysis (Oberlin, 1910); The Analysis of Form in Music (ib., 1919); also co-ed., with A. E. Heacox, of Lessons in Harmony (ib., 1906; rev. ed. 1931; Guide publ. in 1912).
5Lehmann, George, violinist; b. New York, July 31, 1865. Pupil at Leipzig Cons., 1880–3, of Schradieck and Hermann (vln.), Lammers (harm.), and Jadassohn (cpt. and fugue). Also one season with Joachim at Berlin. Won the Helbig prize for playing, at the Gewandhaus, 1883, Joachim's Hungarian concerto. Traveled till 1893 as a soloist and with his quartet-party, the 'Lehmann Quartet'; 1886–9, concert-master of the Cleveland, Ohio, Symph. Orch. (later disbanded); 1889–92, in Europe; 1893–1907, in New York as a soloist, teacher, editorial writer, and critic on the staff of 'Musical America'; 1907–14, lived in Berlin; since then again in the U. S.; at present (1940) in Yonkers, N. Y. Has publ. True Principles of the Art of Violin-playing (N. Y., 1899; valuable for students and teachers) and The Violinist's Lexicon (N. Y., 1918); has also publ. Four Melodious Sketches for vln. and pf., and ed. a selection of 25 pieces for young violinists.
7Lehmann, Lilli, dramatic soprano; b. Würzburg, Nov. 24, 1848; d. Berlin, May 16, 1929. Her mother, Marie Loew (1807–83), who had sung leading soprano rôles and had also appeared as a harp-virtuoso at the Cassel opera under Spohr, accepted in 1853 the position of harpist at the Natl. Th. in Prague, and there Lilli spent her girlhood. At the age of 6 she began to study pf. with Cölestin Müller. After 6 years she had progressed so far that she was able to act as accompanist to her mother, who also was the only singing-teacher she ever had. She made her début on Oct. 20, 1865, in Prague as the First Page in Die Zauberflöte; then sang in Danzig (1868), Leipzig (1869–70), and in 1870 became a member of the R. Opera in Berlin, where she soon established a reputation as a brilliant coloratura singer. The summer of 1875 she spent in Bayreuth, studying with Wagner the parts of Woglinde (Rheingold and Götterdämmerung), Helmwige and the Forest Bird, which rôles she created at the Festival of the following summer. She then returned to Berlin under a life-contract with the R. Opera, and was made 'Kammer-sängerin'; frequent leave of absence, although
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