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Groves Dictionary Of Music And Musicians,vol.5 L-m, 1900
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1for several of the great Spanish plays of the 17th century, by Calderón, Lope de Vega, Móreto and others. In 1801 he was conducting at the Cruz and Principe theatres in Madrid. 'El trueque de los amantes' (c. 1785) was reprinted in Subirá's 'Tonadillas teatrales inéditas' (1932). J. B. T., adds.
2See also Esteve. Misson (for tonadilla).
3LASSALLE, Jean (b. Lyons, 17 Dec. 1847; d. Paris, 7 Sept. 1909).
4French baritone singer. He was the son of a silk merchant at Lyons, intended for the same business, and studied industrial design at the Beaux-Arts, Lyons, and later in Paris. There he abandoned the idea of a mercantile career and for a time studied painting. He also studied singing at the Conservatoire, but, making little progress, he left the school and studied privately under Novelli (Lavessière). He made his début at Liège as Saint-Bris in Meyerbeer's 'Huguenots' (19 Nov. 1868). He sang next at Lille, Toulouse, The Hague and Brussels (5 Sept. 1871). On 7 June 1872 he made a successful début at the Paris Opéra. With the exception of visits, on leave of absence, to London, Russia, Madrid, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Warsaw, the U.S.A., etc., Lassalle remained at the Opéra for twenty-three years, and became principal baritone there on the retirement of Faure in 1872.
5On 14 June 1879 he made his début in London, at Covent Garden Theatre, as Nelusko in Meyerbeer's 'L'Africaine', and played there for three seasons with great success. From 1888 to 1893 he appeared at the same theatre in a great variety of parts with unvarying success, notably on 13 July 1889 as Hans Sachs on the production of 'The Mastersingers' in Italian. In 1896 and 1897 he played in Germany.
6After 1901 Lassalle devoted himself to teaching in Paris, and in Nov. 1903 he was appointed a professor at the Conservatoire. Excellent alike as a singer and an actor, the possessor of a beautiful voice, an indefatigable worker, Lassalle was one of the finest artists of his time.
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8LASSEN, Eduard (b. Copenhagen, 13 Apr. 1830; d. Weimar, 15 Jan. 1904).
9Danish (naturalized Belgian) conductor and composer. He was taken to Brussels when only two and entered the Conservatoire there at twelve. In 1844 he took the first prize as pianist, in 1847 the same for harmony, and soon afterwards the second prize for composition. His successes, which were many, were crowned by the Belgian Prix de Rome in 1851, after which he started on a lengthy tour through Germany and Italy. Disappointed in his hopes of getting a five-act opera performed in Brussels, he left for Weimar, where in 1857 it was produced as 'Landgraf Ludwig's Brautfahrt', under the care of Liszt and with great success. In the following year he was appointed court music director, and on the retirement of Liszt in 1860 succeeded him as conductor of the Opera. A second opera, 'Frauenlob', was given in 1860, and a third, 'Le Captif', was brought out in Brussels in 1865. At Weimar Lassen had the satisfaction of producing Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' in 1874, at a time when no other theatre but Munich had dared to do so.
10Lassen wrote a Symphony in D major, a 'Beethoven' overture and a Festival overture, music to Sophocles' 'Oedipus' (1874), to Hebbel's 'Nibelungen', Goethe's 'Faust', Parts 1 and 2 (1876), to Scheffel's festival play 'Die Linde am Ettersberg' (1878), to Devrivent's version of Calderón's 'Circe' (1881) and to Goethe's 'Pandora' (1886). His works also include a second Symphony, in C major (Op. 78), a 'Fest-Cantate', a 'Te Deum', a set of 'Biblische Bilder' for voices and orchestra, a large number of songs and other pieces. In 1881 he was decorated with the order of Leopold. His 'Faust' music long kept the stage all over Germany.
11See also Cornelius (completion of 'Gunlod').
12LASSER, Johann Baptist (b. Steinbrucken, Lower Austria, 12 Aug. 1751; d. Munich, 21 Oct. 1805).
13Austrian singer and composer. He was tenor and musical director successively at Brno (1781-86), Linz (1786-88) and Graz (1788-91), until he settled at Munich in that last year. Of about ten Singspiele he wrote for those towns, 'Die unruhige Nacht' (lib. after Goldoni's 'La notte critica') is the only one which is still extant (score in Berlin). It was produced at Munich in 1792. His printed Op. 1, three masses, came out at Augsburg in 1795; Lasser also published a 'Vollständige Anleitung zur Singkunst' (Munich, 1798; copy in B.M.).
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15LASSERRE, Jules Bernard (b. Tarbes, 29 July 1838; d. Tarbes, 19 Feb. 1906).
16French violoncellist. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1852, where he gained the second prize in 1853 and the first prize in 1855. When Pasdeloup's popular concerts were first started he was appointed solo cellist; he also played with great success in the principal towns of France. During 1859 he was solo cellist at the court of Madrid and travelled through Spain. In 1869 he took up his residence in England, where he played principal cello under Costa and at the Musical Union.
17Lasserre wrote various compositions, both for his own instrument and for the violin: Études, Fantasies, Romances, Tarantelles, transcriptions, a cello method, etc.
18T. P. P.
19LASSUS, Ernst (de) (c. 1567-?). See Lassus (Roland de, father).
20LASSUS, Ferdinand (de) (c. 1562-1609). See Lassus (Roland de, father).
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