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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1916
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1LEONORA OVERTURES
3the two upper voices meant to represent one nightingale echoing the other in canon. J.R.M.
5LEONORA OVERTURES, see FIDELIO, ante, p. 33.
7LEONORE, OU L'AMOUR CONJUGAL. An opéra-comique in two acts; words by Bouilly, music by Gaveaux. Produced at the Opéra Comique, Feb. 19, 1798. The book was translated into Italian, composed by Paer, and produced at Dresden, Oct. 3, 1804. It was also translated into German by Jos. Sonnleithner (late in 1804), and composed by Beethoven. The story of the transformations and performances of the opera in its three shapes is given under FIDELIO, ante, p. 33.
9LEONORE¹ PROHASKA. A romantic tragedy by Friedrich Duncker, for which Beethoven in the autumn of 1814 composed a soldiers' chorus for men's voices unaccompanied; a romance with harp accompaniment; and a melodram with harmonica, besides scoring the march in his Sonata, op. 26. The melodram has been already printed in this Dictionary (ante, p. 298). The opening-bars of the two others are given by Thayer, Chron. Verzeichniss, No. 187 (see the account in Thayer, iii. 317). The four pieces, as given in the article, have been published by Breitkopfs in the supplemental volume to their complete edition of Beethoven. The march from op. 26 is transposed into B minor, and scored for Flutes, Clarinets in A, Bassoons, two Horns in D and two in E, Drums, Violins 1 and 2, Viola, Violoncello, and Bass. The autograph is in possession of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. Dr. Sonnleithner—no mean authority—believed that Beethoven had also written an overture and entr'acte for the piece. For some reason or other the play was not performed.
11LEROUX, XAVIER HENRY NAPOLEON, born at Velletri in Italy, Oct. 11, 1863, was a pupil of the Paris Conservatoire, where he gained in 1881 a second accessit for piano, and a first prize for harmony; in 1882, a second prize for counterpoint and an honourable mention for the Prix de Rome; in 1884, a first prize for counterpoint and the second Prix de Rome, and finally in 1885, the Prix de Rome itself with his cantata 'Endymion.' Leroux's dramatic works are 'Cléopâtre,' incidental music to a five-act drama by Sardou and Moreau (Porte Saint-Martin, Oct. 23, 1890); 'Evangeline,' lyric drama in four acts (Brussels, Dec. 1895); incidental music for 'Les Perses' adapted from Aeschylus (Odéon, Nov. 5, 1896); music for 'La Montagne Enchantée' (in collaboration with A. Messager, Porte Saint-Martin, April 12, 1897); 'Astarté,' four-act opera (Paris Opéra, Feb. 15, 1901); 'La Reine Fiammetta' (after Catulle Mendès), in four acts (Opéra Comique, Dec. 23, 1903). Two more operas, 'Le Chemineau' and 'Théodora,' have recently been completed (1905). Apart from the stage, Leroux's works include an overture 'Harald,' given at the Lamoureux Concerts; 'Vénus et Adonis,' lyric scene (Concerts de l'Opéra, 1897); and many songs. He has also written church music, a mass with orchestra, motets, etc. He has filled the post of professor of harmony at the Paris Conservatoire since 1896.
13¹ Nottebohm gives it 'Eleonore.'
15LESCHETIZKY
17LEROUX, or LE ROY, ADRIEN, was a singer, lute player, and composer, but will be remembered as one of the most celebrated music printers of the 16th century, when printers were also publishers. Of the reasons of his taking to printing we have no account. He worked with the types of Le Bé (cut in 1540), as Attaingnant had done before him with those of Hautin. Fétis states that he worked by himself for some time, but cites no evidence. In 1551 Le Roy married the sister of R. Ballard, who was already occupying himself with music printing, and was attached to the court; they joined partnership and obtained a patent, dated Feb. 16, 1552, as sole printers of music to Henri II. In 1572 he received Orlando Lasso as his guest, and published a volume of 'moduli' for him, with a dedication to Charles IX., which has already been quoted in this volume (ante, p. 644). Leroy's name disappears from the publications of the firm in 1589, and it may thus far be inferred that he died then. His Instruction book for the Lute, 1557, was translated into English in two different versions, one by Alford, London, 1568, and one by 'F. K. Gentleman' (Ib. 1574). A second work of his was a short and easy instruction book for the 'Guiterne,' or guitar (1578); and a third is a book of 'airs de cour' for the lute, 1571, in the dedication of which he says that such airs were formerly known as 'voix de ville.' Besides these the firm published, between 1551 and 1568, twenty books of 'Chansons' for four voices. [See BALLARD.]
19LESCHETIZKY, THEODOR, a distinguished pianist, born at Lancut in Austrian Poland, June 22, 1830. He attracted notice in Vienna by his pianoforte playing in 1845. He was for some time a professor at the Conservatorium of St. Petersburg, from which appointment he retired in 1878, since which time he has lived in Vienna. His marriage with his pupil, Mme. Essipoff, took place in 1880, and was dissolved in 1892, and in 1894 he married another pupil. His compositions chiefly consist of morceaux de salon for the piano, but an opera, 'Die erste Falte,' was given with success at Prague in 1867, at Wiesbaden in 1881, and elsewhere. He made his début in England at the Musical Union concerts in 1864, playing in the Schumann Quintet, and solos of his own composition, and has frequently since then appeared at the same concerts. He was the principal master of Paderewski; an account of his method was published as Die Grundlage des Methode Leschetizky by Malwine Brée in 1902.
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