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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1he studied with John Finlay Williamson and composition with David Hugh Jones, Seth Bingham and Roy Harris.
3Lehmer has taught at the following schools: Cornell University, as assistant to Roy Harris (1940–41); Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis., as composer in residence (1946–48); at Colorado College, as head of theory and composition (from 1948).
5His works include the following:
7CHORAL WORKS
8'Folk Fun' for unison chorus, flute, clar. & pf. duet (1947).
9'Folk Fantasy' for unison chorus & orch. (1948).
10'Paul Bunyan' for narrator, chorus & orch. (1948).
11'The Campbells are coming' for chorus & military band (1948).
12Also various accompanied and unaccompanied choruses.
14ORCHESTRAL WORKS
15Prelude and Fugal Fantasy for woodwind & stgs. (1945).
16Theme with Variations for stgs. (1946).
174 Chorale Preludes (1948).
18'Concerto grosso' for stgs. with solo vn., viola & cello (1949).
20CHAMBER MUSIC
21'Song Universal' for mezzo-soprano & stg. 4tet (1939).
22'God be merciful' for soprano, oboe (or vn.), viola & cello (1949).
24ONE INSTRUMENT AND PIANOFORTE
25Passacaglia and Fugue for clar. & pf. duet (1949).
26Suite on American folk hymns for vn. (1949).
27Variations on a Folk Hymn for clar. (1949).
28Also miscellaneous inst. pieces, 10 sets of pf. pieces, songs, &c.
30P. G.-H.
31Lahor, Jean. See Chausson (song). Duparc (H., 3 songs). Rey (songs). Saint-Saëns (song). Walker (E., song).
33LAHOUSSAYE, Pierre (b. Paris, 12 Apr. 1735; d. Paris, 1818).
34French violinist and composer. He was a pupil of André Noël Pagin (1721–?), who himself had been a pupil of Tartini, and during a long stay in Italy Lahoussaye took further lessons with the "maestro delle nazioni" at Padua. He stayed for some years at the court of Parma, playing in the court orchestra there under Traetta, and in 1768 went with Guglielmi to London, where he became leader at the King's Theatre. After his return to Paris he was appointed chef d'orchestre of the Concert Spirituel (under the directorship of the singer Joseph Legros) in 1777, a post he gave up in 1782 to become conductor of the Comédie-Italienne. In 1790 he changed over to the Théâtre de Monsieur (later Théâtre Feydeau); in 1801, on the amalgamation of the Favart and Feydeau theatres, he lost his post, and in his old age saw himself reduced to a second violin desk at the Opéra. For a few years he also held an appointment as professor at the Conservatoire. Fétis, who knew Lahoussaye personally, speaks of him in very sympathetic terms.
36Of Lahoussaye's compositions only his Op. 1, consisting of 6 violin sonatas, was published (copy in B.M.). For the stage he wrote a comic opera, 'Les Amours de Courcy' (Théâtre de Monsieur, 22 Aug. 1790).
38A. L.
39LAI. See Lay. Machaut. Song, p. 909.
40LAICH. See Song, p. 909.
41LAIDLAW, Robena Anna' (b. Bretton, Yorkshire, 30 Apr. 1819; d. London, 29 May 1901).
42English pianist. She was educated in Edinburgh at the school of her aunt, and in music by Robert Müller, a pianoforte teacher there. Her family went to Königsberg in 1830, and there her vocation was decided. She improved in playing rapidly and in three or four years appeared in public in Berlin with great applause. In 1834 she was in London studying under Herz and played at Paganini's farewell concert. In 1836 she returned to Berlin, and played at a Gewandhaus concert at Leipzig on 2 July 1837. Soon afterwards Schumann distinguished her by the dedication of his 'Fantasiestücke', (Op. 12)², and she made the composer's acquaintance. After a lengthened tour through Prussia, Russia and Austria, she returned in 1840 to London. She was appointed in that year pianist to the Queen of Hanover. In 1855 she married a Mr. Thomson and retired.
44G.
45LAJARTE, Théodore (Édouard Du- faure) de (b. Bordeaux, 10 July 1826; d. Paris, 20 June 1890).
46French writer on music and composer. He was a pupil of Leborne at the Paris Conservatoire, and in early life wrote a good many small operettas, etc. ('Monsieur de Floridor', 1 act, Opéra-Comique, 11 Oct. 1880; 'Les Deux Jumeaux de Bergame', ballet, Opéra, 26 Jan. 1886), but was best known for his works on musical history. He published 'Bibliothèque musicale du Théâtre de l'Opéra' (2 vols. 1876–79), a very important catalogue of the operas produced at the Paris Opéra, with annotations based upon the archives of the institution; 'Instruments Sax et fanfares civiles' (1867); a 'Traité de composition musicale' (in collaboration with Bisson, 1880). He also edited a collection of 'Airs à danser' from Lully to Méhul and a number of old operas and ballets in vocal score, in nine series, comprising in all forty compositions, under the title of 'Chefs-d'œuvre classiques de l'Opéra français' (Paris) and 'Curiosités de l'Opéra' (1883).³ He was sub-librarian of the Opéra from 1873 to 1890.
48G. F., rev. M. L. P.
49LAJTHA, László (i.e. Ladislas; Leslie) (b. Budapest, 30 June 1892).
50Hungarian conductor, folklorist, writer on music and composer. He studied at the
52¹ This is the original order of her names; they were transposed to "Anna Robena" at Schumann's suggestion as being more euphonious.
53² See Z.I.M.G., III, 188 ff.
54³ Lajarte directed this publication in collaboration with Weckerlin, Guilmant, Gevaert and others.
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