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Theodor Leschetizky
12+ albums
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Theodor Leschetizky (22 June 1830 – 14 November 1915) was a Polish pianist, professor and composer. Theodor Leschetizky was born on the estate of the family of Count Potocki in Łańcut. His father was a gifted pianist and music teacher of Viennese birth. His mother Therèse (von) Ulmann was a gifted singer of German origin. Leschetizky's father gave him his first piano lessons and then took him to Vienna to study with Czerny. At age eleven he performed a Czerny piano concerto in Lemberg (near Łańcut), with Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (the son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) conducting. At the age of fourteen, he started to tutor his first pupils. By the age of eighteen he was a well-known virtuoso in Vienna and beyond. His composition teacher was Simon Sechter, subsequently the teacher of Anton Bruckner. At the invitation of his friend Anton Rubinstein he went to St. Petersburg to teach in the court of the Grand Duchess Helen. Remaining there from 1852 to 1877, he was one of the founders of the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music in 1862. While in Russia he married one of his most famous pupils, Anna Yesipova (the second of his four wives), and had two children (one of them Robert Leschetizky). In 1878 he returned to Vienna and began teaching there, creating one of the most eminent private piano studios in history, besides Franz Liszt in Weimar. He taught thousands of students, in the Weimarerstraβe (formerly the Carl Ludwigstraβe) XIX. Bezirk Wien, Vienna. They came from all o
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A La Campagne. Op. 40: No. 1, Waves and Billows - Welte-Mignon 1200
48724 Pieces, Op. 36: No. 4, Etude "The Spring" - Duo-Art 5699
4483Etude, Op. 43, No. 2 (La Piccolo) in F Minor - Duo-Art S-3027
2654Three Morceaux. Op. 48: No. 3, Etude Heroique - Duo-Art 5848
2375Les Deux Alouettes. Op. 2, No. 1 (Two Skylarks) - Welte-Mignon 1203
1796Consolation
1757Le bal d'hier (Mazurka-Reverie)
1638La Melusine
1499Danse a la russe
12910Contes de Jeunesse, Op. 46: V. Toccata (Hommage a Czerny)
114albums
LESCHETIZKY: Piano Works
LESCHETIZKY: Piano Concerto / Contes de Jeunesse Suite
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The Welte Mignon Mystery, Vol. 13
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Leschetizky, T.: Piano Music
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Piano Rolls and Discs, Selected Comparisons (1927)
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Theodor Leschetizky - Piano Music
19th Century Pianists on Welte Mignon
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Rarities of Piano Music 2009 - Live Recordings from the Husum Festival
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Khwarg: Piano Impromptus
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If I Were a Bird
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MOISEIWITSCH, Benno: Acoustic Recordings 1916-1925 (Moiseiwitsch, Vol. 10)
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