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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1LAMOND, Frederic (b. Glasgow, 28 Jan. 1868; d. Stirling, 21 Feb. 1948).
2Scottish pianist. He was at first a pupil of his brother, David Lamond, and in 1880 obtained the post of organist at Laurieston parish church. He studied the violin with H. C. Cooper, and in 1882 went to Frankfort o/M. to the Raff Conservatory, where Heermann was his master for the violin, Max Schwarz for the pianoforte, and Urspruch for composition. There he laid the foundation of his wide musical culture, and for a time his ambition was to devote himself to composition. It is perhaps due to his all-round musical interest and cultivation that all his life he impressed his audiences as a musician first and as a pianist only incidentally. But if technical conquests never seemed to come easily to him, he nevertheless acquired, in his own way, a remarkable virtuosity. His pianoforte studies were completed under Bülow and Liszt. His first important appearance as a mature pianist took place in Berlin on 17 Nov. 1885, when he made a great success; and he appeared in Vienna soon afterwards. His first recital in Great Britain took place at Glasgow on 8 Mar. 1886, and soon afterwards he gave a set of recitals at Princes Hall, London. For the fourth of these, on 15 Apr., St. James's Hall was taken, and Liszt's presence set the seal on the young player's reputation. The recitals showed the depth of Lamond's interpretations of Beethoven, a master in whom he took especial delight. During the next few years he played much in Germany, but appeared occasionally in London. On 5 Apr. 1890 he played Saint-Saens's C minor Concerto at the Crystal Palace, when his own Symphony in A was given (it was first played at the Glasgow Choral Union on 23 Dec. 1889 and revived at Queen's Hall in 1912).
4Lamond's first appearance with the Philharmonic Society in London took place on 14 May 1891, when he played Brahms's second Concerto with great skill. The same society performed his overture, 'From the Scottish Highlands', on 7 Mar. 1895. In 1896 Lamond played in Russia and in 1897 gave a series of recitals in London, at one of which a couple of pianoforte pieces of his own were played. From 1904, when he married the German actress Irene Triesch, he lived in Berlin, but he made an annual appearance in England up to 1914. His performances there were renewed in 1919. In 1917 he accepted a professorship in the Conservatory at The Hague. During and after the second world war he and his wife, who were not accepted by the Nazi régime, nor willing to accept it, lived in London.
6Among Lamond's compositions may be mentioned a Sonata, Op. 2, for cello and pianoforte and a Trio for violin, cello and pianoforte.
7J. A. F.-M., adds.
9BIBL. — LAMOND, FREDERIC, 'Memoirs' (Glasgow, 1949).
11La Motte, Antoine Houdar de. See Campra ('Europe galante', lib.). Colasse ('Canente', lib.). Destouches (A., 5 libs.). Marais (2 libs.). Mondonville (Jos., prologue for 'Titon et l'Aurore'). Mozart (song). Rameau ('Pigmalion', lib.).
13La Motte Fouqué. See Fouqué.
15LAMOTTE, Franz (b. ?, 1753; d. ?, 1781).
16Violinist and composer of uncertain nationality. He is said to have been born in Flanders and educated in London; according to Burney he was a pupil of Giardini. He gave a concert at the Burg Theatre in Vienna on 29 Dec. 1766, when the 'Wienerisches Diarium' gives his age as thirteen and states that the prodigy had arrived a short time ago and that he was generally called "the young Englishman". Lamotte then went on a European tour. Gerber heard him at Hiller's at Leipzig about 1767 and was impressed by his stupendous technique; Leopold Mozart mentions him in a letter of 1772 as having been at Naples. From 1772 till his early death Lamotte was employed in the Austrian imperial chapel; but he still went abroad a good deal, appearing in London first in 1776 and again in 1778-79, when he gave a number of subscription concerts with Rauzzini. His compositions include 3 violin concertos and several sonatas and solos for his instrument, some of them published. Contemporary accounts abound in the anecdotes usually recounted about young virtuosi. Burney, who heard him in 1772, calls him the "best solo player and sightsman upon the violin at Vienna"; Mozart writing two years after Lamotte's death (6 Dec. 1783) asks his father to tell Heinrich Marchand to "concentrate hard on staccato playing, for it is just in this particular that the Viennese cannot forget Lamotte".
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20LAMOUREUX, Charles (b. Bordeaux, 28 Sept. 1834; d. Paris, 21 Dec. 1899).
21French violinist and conductor. He began his violin studies under Beaudoin and was then sent to the Paris Conservatoire, where he was in Girard's class. He obtained a second accessit for the violin in 1852, the second prize in the following year and the first in 1854. He also studied harmony under Tolbecque and attended the counterpoint course of Leborne, finishing his theoretical studies under the famous organist Alexis Chauvet. He was solo violinist in the orchestra of the Théâtre du Gymnase (1850) and afterwards joined that of the Opéra, where he played for many years. He was admitted a member of the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire and, like all the members of these orchestras, gave private lessons. But these insignificant posts were not sufficient for Lamourcux, who dreamt
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