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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1'Commentaries for the Treasury of Harpsichord Music' (New York, 1947).
2'Notes on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier' ('Town Hall', Feb. 1948).
3'Apropos of Couperin' ('Saturday Review of Literature', 31 Mar. 1951).
5C. R. H.
7See also Well-Tempered Clavichord (Title and Medium.
9LANDRÉ, Guillaume Louis Frédéric (usually known as Guillaume Landré, jun.) (b. The Hague, 24 Feb. 1905).
10Dutch composer. He is the son of Willem Landré and first studied law, taking the degree of Master of Laws. Even in his university days at Utrecht, however, he found time to take serious lessons from Willem Pijper, whose influence has been continuing. He made his first appearance as a composer soon after this, with a 'Sinfonietta' and a violin Concerto, incidental music to an open-air play, 'Cortez', produced at the lustrum festival at Utrecht, and a light opera, 'De Snock' ('The Pike', Amsterdam, 1938), produced under the auspices of the Wagner Vereniging. Later he composed much chamber music, including 2 string Quartets, 2 pianoforte Trios, also 2 Symphonies, a Sinfonietta for violin and orchestra, a large number of partsongs for men's and women's voices, a great work for chorus and orchestra, 'Piae Memoriae pro patria mortuorum', an important a cappella chorus, 'Egidus waer bestu bleven', and a cello Concerto. Among his other activities have been those of music critic for the Amsterdam 'Telegraaf', member of the committee of the Dutch copyright and performing society Buma, the Genootschap Nederlandse Componisten and the Stichting Nederlands Muziekbelangen. In 1947 he became president of the Dutch section of I.S.C.M.
12LANDRÉ, Willem (actually Guillaume Louis Frédéric) (b. Amsterdam, 12 June 1874; d. Eindhoven, 1 Jan. 1948).
13Dutch writer and composer of French descent, father of the preceding. His whole musical education he had from Bernard Zweers. His first serious work as a writer appeared when he was appointed music critic for the 'Oprechte Haarlemsche Courant' in 1901. From Haarlem he removed to The Hague as musical editor of the 'Nieuwe Courant' in 1901 and five years later to Rotterdam as musical editor of the 'Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant', which position he held until 1937. He was also for many years editor of 'Caecilia, Het Muziekcollege', the leading musical periodical in Holland. As a composer he wrote in practically all forms, including the operas 'De Roos van Dekama' (Haarlem, 1897) and 'Beatrix' (The Hague, 1925), a 'Romantic' pianoforte Concerto and a number of orchestral works, most of which are of an elegiac character. These last comprise 'In memoriam Matris', 'Three Mood Pictures' (in memory of Frederick Delius) and a symphonic fantasy 'Le Jardin de Marguerite'. Of his choral works the principal are a 'Requiem in memoriam uxoris' and 'Fragments from the Book of Baruch', dedicated to Queen Wilhelmina. A pianoforte Trio and a number of songs and partsongs are welcome numbers in the repertories of Dutch musicians.
15As might be expected of a composer of Huguenot descent, his style is somewhat related to that of the French composers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but shows a strong personal note. Unfortunately many of his manuscripts were destroyed in the bombardment of Rotterdam in 1940, after which he retired to a small village (Doetinchem) in eastern Holland.
17LANDSBERG, Ludwig (b. Breslau, 1807; d. Rome, 6 May 1858).
18German pianist and collector. He went to Rome and remained there for twenty-four years, teaching the pianoforte and amassing a wonderful collection of music, both printed and manuscript. On his death his library was taken, part to Berlin and part to Breslau, and a catalogue of the ancient portion was printed (Berlin, 1859, "imprimé chez Ernest Kuhn"). It contains compositions by more than 150 musicians of the old Italian and Flemish schools down to Casali.
20LANDSHOFF, Ludwig (b. Stettin, 3 June 1874; d. New York, 20 Sept. 1941).
21German musicologist and conductor. He studied music at Munich and Berlin as a pupil of Ludwig Thuille, Heinrich Urban and Max Reger, and musicology under Adolf Sandberger, Max Friedländer and O. Fleischer. In 1900 he took the Ph.D. at the University of Munich with a thesis entitled 'Joh. Rudolph Zumsteeg: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Liedes und der Ballade'. He settled first at Ludwigshohe near Munich and later in Italy, and devoted all his time to scientific research, which he put to practical use by being one of the first to organize concerts of old music played according to the conventions of its period on contemporary instruments. He then became a conductor, in which capacity he worked successively at Kiel, Würzburg, Breslau and Hamburg. In 1919-28 he was director of the Munich Bach Society and in 1927 he organized the Bach Festival there. In 1929-33 he was conductor of the radio in Berlin, giving a special series of concerts each season. He also gave lectures, illustrated by concerts, at the Lessing-Hochschule on baroque chamber music. With the collaboration of his wife, Philippine Landshoff, a soprano singer, he gave numerous concerts, both in Berlin and Munich, of neglected or unknown 17th-19th-century works. Political events interrupted his artistic career in 1933,
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