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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1on music, among which the 'Essai sur la musique ancienne et moderne' (1780) is the most important; his 'Recueils de chansons avec un accompagnement de violon et la basse continue' also deserves mention. The 4 volumes of his 'Choix de chansons mises en musique' (1773), with their charming illustrations, have become a bibliographical rarity. Some of the contents were edited separately by Lucy E. Broadwood. La Borde was guillotined.
2J. A. F.-M.
4LABROCA, Mario (b. Rome, 22 Nov. 1896).
5Italian composer. He studied under Respighi and Malipiero, but came closer to Casella in his work on behalf of modern music. He actively participated in the affairs of the Corporazione delle Nuove Musiche and those of the Italian section of the I.S.C.M.; and he showed the same zeal when he was called upon to direct the musical division of the Direzione Generale dello Spettacolo attached to the Ministry of Popular Culture, as well as later in his post of manager of the Teatro Comunale of Florence (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino) in 1935-43. After having been artistic director of the Teatro alla Scala at Milan (1948) he became director of the music department of Radio Italiana.
6Labroca's activities as a musical organizer, which made especially heavy claims on him after 1935, and those of music critic, which he exercised chiefly between 1924 and 1930, when he wrote for Roman dailies and for musical periodicals, did not prevent him from producing a considerable number of compositions. Among these the following may be mentioned in chronological order: Suite 'Ritmi di marcia' for pianoforte; Sonatina for violin and pianoforte; Suite for viola and pianoforte; string Quartet No. 1; Trio for violin, cello and pianoforte; 'Sinfonietta' for orchestra; string Quartet No. 2; 'Stabat Mater' for solo voices, chorus and orchestra; Symphony for small orchestra with pianoforte obbligato; 'Il lamento dei mariti e delle mogli' for 6 voices and small orchestra; 'Tre cantate dalla Passione secondo S. Giovanni' for bass, chorus and orchestra (Venice, International Festival, 1950).
7Labroca's music was influenced by neo-classical tendencies, especially during the period of his close collaboration with Casella; but his is a case of neo-classicism animated by a strongly emotional temperament, and this manifests itself more and more decisively in his latest works — above all in the 'Passion Cantatas' — together with a pronounced vein of romanticism and a certain tinge of folk music, elements traceable both in his melodic forms and his instrumental writing.
8G. M. G.
10La Bruère, Charles Antoine Leclerc de. See Rameau (2 libs.).
12LABUŃSKI, Feliks Roderyk (b. Ksawerynowo, 27 Dec. 1892).
13Polish composer, critic and author. He studied the pianoforte in his childhood under R. Hill, in 1922-24 theory and composition with L. Marczewski and W. Maliszewski in Warsaw, and later with Nadia Boulanger and Paul Dukas in Paris. In 1927 he founded, together with Czapski, Perkowski and Wiechowicz, the Association of Young Polish Musicians in Paris, and he acted as its chairman in 1930-34. In 1931 his 'Triptyque champêtre' won a prize in a competition held in Warsaw. He returned to Poland and was appointed to the post of head of the "Serious Music Department" in the Polskie Radio of Warsaw. In 1936 he moved to the U.S.A., where he has been domiciled ever since. He has contributed to many periodicals ('Musical America', 'Musical Courier', 'Modern Music') as well as to the 'International Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians'. His compositions include the following:
14'Polish Cantata' for solo voice, chorus & orch. (1937).
15'The Birds' for soprano, chorus & orch. (1934).
16'Triptyque champêtre', suite for orch. (1931).
17Suite for stgs. (1935).
18'Concertino' for pf. & orch.
19String Quartet (1934).
20'Divertimento' for flute & pf. (1936).
21'Fantastic Dance' for pf.
22'Bagatelles' for pf.
23Mazurka and Prelude for pf.
24Numerous songs.
25C. R. H.
27LABUŃSKI, Wiktor (b. St. Petersburg, 14 Apr. 1895).
28Polish pianist, conductor and composer, probably a cousin of the preceding. He studied the pianoforte under Nikolayev and theory under Wihtol; later the pianoforte with Sasonov and Blumenfeld, and conducting with Emil Młynarski. For eight years (1920-28) he was head of the pianoforte department at the Cracow Conservatory. He went to the U.S.A., where he made his début at Carnegie Hall, New York, in 1928. The same year he was offered the post of head of the pianoforte department at the Nashville Conservatory. Later he became director of the Memphis College of Music.
29In 1934 he visited his native country as guest conductor with the Warsaw Filharmonia, Warsaw Symphony Orchestra and Polskie Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1935 the Curtis Institute of Music at Philadelphia conferred upon him the title of Doctor honoris causa. He lives permanently in the U.S.A. He has composed mainly for the pianoforte, e.g. a 'Concertino' for pianoforte and orchestra (1932), a Concerto (1937), and made a concert transcription of Bach's violin Prelude in E major.
30C. R. H.
32LA CASINIÈRE, Yves de (b. Angers, 11 Feb. 1897).
33French composer, printer and lithographer.
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