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Theodor Leschetizky (sometimes spelled Leschetitzky,[1] Polish: Teodor Leszetycki; 22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915 was an Austrian-Polish pianist, professor, and composer born in Landshut in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, then a crown land of Austria-Hungary.

Theodor Leschetizky
Born(1830-06-22)22 June 1830
Landshut, Austrian Galicia, Austria-Hungary
Died14 November 1915(1915-11-14) (aged 85)
Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire

Life


Theodor Leschetizky was born on 22 June 1830 at the estate of the family of Count Potocki in Landshut, Austrian Galicia. Joseph Leschetizky, his father, was a gifted pianist and music teacher of Viennese birth. His mother Thérèse von Ullmann was a gifted singer of German origin. His father gave him his first piano lessons and then took him to Vienna to study with Carl Czerny. At age eleven, he performed a Czerny piano concerto in Landshut, with Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, the son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, conducting. At the age of fifteen he started to tutor his first students. By the age of eighteen he was a well-known virtuoso in Vienna and beyond. His composition teacher was Simon Sechter, an eminent professor who was the teacher of many other successful musicians.

At the invitation of his friend Anton Rubinstein, he went to St. Petersburg to teach in the court of the Grand Duchess Yelena Pavlovna. Remaining there from 1852 to 1877, he was head of the piano department and one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in 1862. While in Russia he married one of his most famous students, Anna Essipova, the second of his four wives, with whom he had two children; one of them was his daughter, the well-known singer and teacher, Theresa, the other was his son Robert.

In 1878 he returned to Vienna and began teaching there, creating one of the most eminent private piano schools in the world. Promising pianists flocked to his villa in the Währing Cottage District on Karl-Ludwig-Straße, Vienna, coming from all over the world, with a great many from the United States, among them singer Clara Clemens, the daughter of Mark Twain.

From 1904 to 1908, he was assisted by one of his students, Ethel Newcomb, an experience which proved a fertile ground for background research for her 1921 book, Leschetizky as I Knew Him.[2][3][4] Concert pianist and teacher Edwin Hughes was his assistant in 1909 and 1910.[5]

He taught until the age of 85, thereafter leaving for Dresden, where he died on 14 November 1915.[6]


Motto


Leschetizky's motto: "No life without art, no art without life!"


Leschetizky's descendants


He was survived by a son, Robert (Dresden), whose family returned to Bad Ischl after his death. His descendants still live in Bad Ischl and there is a Leschetizky Villa on Leschetizky-Straße, the summer resort where he often vacationed with his friend Johannes Brahms.

Leschetizky had a granddaughter, Ilse Leschetizky (1910–1997), who was a distinguished pianist and teacher. One of her daughters, Margret Tautschnig, continues the Leschetizky tradition with the Leschetizky-Verein Österreich in Bad Ischl. This organisation was co-founded by the Belgian pianist Peter Ritzen.


Leschetizky the composer


Leschetizky composed over a hundred characteristic piano pieces, two operas: Die Brüder von San Marco and Die Erste Falte, thirteen songs and a one-movement piano concerto. Opus numbers were given to 49 works.

Although his piano pieces are primarily smaller works in the salon music vein, they are expressively lyrical on the one hand while exploiting the piano's technical capabilities to great effect on the other. Most of his music has been out of print since the early twentieth century except for the Andante Finale, Op. 13 (a paraphrase for piano left hand on the famous sextet from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Donizetti); and Les deux alouettes, Op. 2, No. 1.


Leschetizky the teacher


His most important legacy is as the main teacher of numerous great pianists such as Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Aline van Barentzen, Ernesto Bérumen, Alexander Brailowsky, Agnes Gardner Eyre, Ignaz Friedman, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Florence Parr Gere, Katharine Goodson, Mark Hambourg, Helen Hopekirk, Mieczysław Horszowski, Edwin Hughes, Frank La Forge, Mabel Lander, Ethel Leginska, Marguerite Melville Liszniewska, Frank Merrick, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Elly Ney, Marie Novello, John Powell, Auguste de Radwan, Zudie Harris Reinecke, Artur Schnabel, Richard Singer, Józef Śliwiński, Bertha Tapper, Isabelle Vengerova, Maria Wilhelmj, Paul Wittgenstein, Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler and many others.[7][8]


Recordings



Bibliography



See also



References


  1. "Wien Geschichte Wiki", a history knowledge base of the city of Vienna (based on Historisches Lexikon Wien by Felix Czeike
  2. Ethel Newcomb (obituary). New York, New York: The New York Times, July 5, 1959.
  3. Newcomb, Ethel (1875–1959),” in “Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia.” Encyclopedia.com, retrieved online June 11, 2018.
  4. Newcomb, Ethel. Leschetizky as I Knew Him. New York, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921.
  5. R. Allen Lott (20 January 2001). "Hughes, Edwin". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.42139. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  6. "Theodor Leschetizky Dies. Famous Teacher of the Great Pianists, Including Paderewski" (PDF). The New York Times. November 18, 1915. Retrieved 2015-01-12.
  7. "Frank Merrick plays Brahms & Balakirev - Pupils of Leschetizky Vol.2". Historical & New Piano Recordings. DIW Records. Archived from the original on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  8. "Aline van Barentzen plays Beethoven 3 Sonatas". Historical Piano Recordings. DIW Records. Retrieved 31 March 2015.

Further reading





На других языках


[de] Theodor Leschetizky

Theodor Hermann Leschetizky, auch Theodor Hermann Leschetitzky, eigentlich Teodor Leszetycki (* 22. Juni 1830 in Łańcut, Galizien, Kaisertum Österreich; † 14. November 1915 in Dresden),[1] war ein polnisch[2][3]-österreichischer Pianist, Komponist und Musikpädagoge.
- [en] Theodor Leschetizky

[es] Theodor Leschetizki

Theodor Leschetizki[1] (22 de junio de 1830-14 de noviembre de 1915) fue un pianista virtuoso, maestro y compositor polaco. Nació en Łańcut, Polonia, en aquel momento parte del Imperio austrohúngaro. Entre sus profesores tuvo a Carl Czerny y entre sus alumnos a Anna Yésipova, quien luego fue su esposa, o a Mieczysław Horszowski y a Artur Schnabel, quienes fueron posteriormente maestros de Murray Perahia y Maria Curcio, respectivamente, entre muchos otros.

[ru] Лешетицкий, Теодор

Теодо́р Лешети́цкий (польск. Teodor Leszetycki, нем. Theodor Leschetizky, в России был известен под именем Фёдор Осипович[6]; 22 июня 1830[1], Ланьцут, Подкарпатское воеводство[2][3] — 14 ноября 1915[4][5] или 17 ноября 1915[1], Дрезден[3] или Вена[1]) — польский пианист, музыкальный педагог и композитор.



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