Lebert(real name, Levi), Sigmund

views updated

Lebert(real name, Levi), Sigmund

Lebert(real name, Levi), Sigmund, German pianist and pedagogue; b. Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart, Dec. 12, 1821; d. Stuttgart, Dec. 8, 1884. He was a pupil of Tomaschek in Prague. In 1856 he founded, with Faiszt, Stark, Brachmann, and Speidel, the Stuttgart Cons. His Grosse Klavierschule (which included numerous studies of his own composition), publ. in cooperation with Stark, ran through many eds. (rev. by M. Pauer, 1904), and appeared also in Eng., French, Italian, and Russian trs. He also publ. an Instructive Edition of classical piano works and ed. dementi’s Gradus adParnassum.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire

About this article

Lebert(real name, Levi), Sigmund

Updated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article