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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1E. Porter" (1886); "Hunt the Thimble" (1887); "The Redeemer" (1887); cantata "The Consolation of Music" (1895); Sonata for violin and piano (1895); Sunday School Harmonies, No. 4 (1898); incidental music to Milton's "Comus" (1901); Melodia (1905, w. S. W. Cole); Harmonia (1905, w. E. W. Cole); "School Songs with College Flavor" (1905); incid. music to Dekker's "Fortunatus" (1906); symphonic prelude to Browning's "A Blot on the 'Scutcheon'" (1907). Editor: "Zeta Psi Song Books" (1892-1904); "National School Library of Song" (2 vols., 1894); "Church Harmonies New and Old" (1895); "Tufts Song Book" (1906); Tufts Songs and Supplement" (1915); "Assembly Praise-Book" (1910, w. L. R. Maxwell); etc. Editor-in-chief Tufts College Graduate since 1911. Mem. Eastern Educational Conference in Music, Nat. Edn. Assn.; Int. Musical Soc. (sec. North Am. branch since 1912); Nat. Soc. Study of Education; Amer. Assn. for the Advancement of Science; M. T. N. A. (v.-pres., 1911); Zeta Psi (sec. Kappa Chap. Corp.). Address: Tufts College, Mass.
3LEWIS, Walter Henry:
4Tenor, organist, conductor, composer; b. Manchester, N. H., Mar. 31, 1866, s. Henry and Hannah Elizabeth (Beach) L.; brother of Frederick Henry L., teacher at New England Cons.; uncle of F. Percyval L. (q.v.); stud. music w. parents and elder brother; grad. New England Cons., 1890; m. Sarah Abbie Bridges, Manchester, N. H., June 26, 1895. Debut as Doctor in "Doctor of Alcantara," Apr. 20, 1887; appeared in Gilbert and Sullivan and similar light operas; conducted operas and oratorios, played in orchestras, theatres, festivals and church; pianist "The Meistersingers," male vocal organization of Boston, 1913. Has composed 7 comic operas, incl. "Miller's Daughter" (prod. and pub. 1891); musical comedy, "The Explorers" (M. Witmark & Sons, New York); songs "My Sweetheart," "Break, Break, Break," "Remember Now Thy Creator," and others; 15 short responses (Oliver Ditson Co., Boston); 3 comic operas (MS.); etc.; pub. vocal arrangements. Author: "My Lolita," text to Chaminade's "Scarf Dance" (Oliver Ditson, 1916); "Friendship," to Schütte's "À la bien aimé" (C. W. Thompson Co., 1916). Colleague Am. Guild of Organists; pres. local 349, Am. Federation of Musicians, 1908-10. Address: 908 Union St., Manchester, N. H.
6LEWYN, Helena:
7Pianist; b. Houston, Tex., Dec. 16, 1891; ed. Houston, Chicago, and Berlin, Germany; stud. piano w. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Godowsky and Conrad Ansorge, composition w. Edgar Stillman Kelley. Debut with Berlin Philharmonic Orch., Berlin; appeared in principal cities of Germany, and in London and other European cities; American debut with New York Symphony Orch., 1910; concert tour of the U. S., 1910-12; other tours since then. Specializes in Chopin. Address: Houston, Texas.
9LHÉVINNE, Joseph:
10Pianist; b. Russia, 1874; stud. music w. N. Crysander, Moscow, and at the Moscow Cons. w. Safonov, virtuoso diploma and gold medal, Moscow Cons., 1881, Rubinstein Prize, Berlin, 1895. Debut in Moscow at age of 8; played Beethoven's 5th Concerto under Rubinstein in Moscow at age of 15; concert tours in Europe; instructor in piano sch. of Imperial Mus. Soc., Tiflis, Russia, 1900-02, Moscow Cons., 1902-06; subsequent concert tours in Russia, France, England and Germany; American debut with Russian Symphony Orch., New York, 1906; made several tours since then in the U. S. and Mexico; conducts a music school in Berlin. Address: Wannsee, near Berlin, Germany.
12LIADOV, Anatol Constantinovitch:
13Composer; b. Petrograd, May 11, 1855; s. Constantin L., court conductor; grandson of a musician; stud. w. his father, then at Petrograd Cons., composition w. Rimsky-Korsakov; grad. 1877; asst. teacher of elementary theory at the Petrograd Cons., 1878; now professor, teaching special classes in harmony and composition; has also held a similar post in the Imper. Court Chapel; commissioned (w. Balakirev and Liapounov) by the Imper. Geographical Soc. to make researches into the folksongs of the various sections of Russia. Comp.: for piano, "Biroulki," op. 2; Six Pieces op. 3; "Arabesques," op. 4; Études, op. 5; Intermezzi, op. 6, 7 and 8; Prelude, Mazurkas, op. 9, 10; 12 Études, op. 11; Four Preludes, op. 13; Two Mazurkas, op. 15; ballades, "From Days of Old," op. 17, 20 and 21; "On the Sward," op. 23; Two Pieces, op. 24; Idyll, op. 25; "Marionettes," op. 26 and 27; "Tabatière à musique," op. 30, 31, 32; Three Canons, op. 34; Variations on a Theme by Glinka, op. 35; Three Preludes, op. 36; Études, op. 37; Mazurkas, op. 38; Four Preludes, op. 39; Études and Preludes, op. 40; Barcarolles, op. 44; Preludes, op. 46; Canzonetta, op. 48; Variations on a Polish Song, op. 51; Morceaux de Ballet, op. 52; for orch.: Symphony, B min., op. 12; Scherzo, op. 16; "Scene at the Inn," op. 19 (mazurka); "Polonaise," op. 49 and 55 (in memory of Poushkin); symphonic poems "Baba Yaga," op. 56, "Le lac enchanté," op. 62; and "Kikimora," op. 63; Ballade for orchestra; choruses with orch. for the last scene of Schiller's "Braut von Messina," op. 28; "Slava," f. women's voices, 2 harps and 2 pianos (8 hands), op. 47; choruses to Maeterlinck's "Sœur Béatrice," op. 60; Russian folksongs, op. 43 and 58; songs f. women's chor. and piano. op. 50; Women's Chorus, in honor of Stassov (1894). Collab. w. Borodin, etc., in "The Paraphrases," the string quartet B-la-f, the Fanfare for the Rimsky-Korsakov Jubilee, etc. Address: Conservatory of Music, Petrograd, Russia.
15LIAPOUNOV, Sergei Mikhailovitch:
16Composer; b. Yaroslav, Nov. 30, 1859; stud. in the classes of the Imper. Russian Mus. Soc. at Nijny Novgorod, then at the Moscow Cons., which he left in 1883; commissioned (w. Liadov and Balakirev) by the Imp. Geographical Soc. to collect Russian folksongs; (govts. of Vologda, Vialka and Kostroma), 1893; asst. dir. Imperial Court Chapel, 1894-1902; since then devoted to composition in Petrograd. Comp.: for orchestra: Ballade, op. 2 (1883); Ouverture Solennelle (1896); Symphony in B minor, op. 12 (1887); symph. poems, "Yelavova Vola," op. 37; and "Hashish," op. 53; Polonaise, op. 16; for piano:
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