Edwin Lemare

Edwin Henry Lemare ( born September 9, 1865 in Ventnor, Isle of Wight, England; † September 24, 1934 in Los Angeles, California ) was an English organist and composer. He scored at the turn of the century the most famous organist of the English culture.

  • 2.1 Moonlight and Roses

Life

Edwin Henry Lemare received his first musical training as a choirboy and organist at Holy Trinity Church in Ventnor with his father, a music seller, also called Edwin. He then studied for three years at the Royal Academy of Music with Sir George Alexander Macfarren, Walter Cecil Macfarren, Dr Charles Steggall and Dr Edmund H. Turpin later in 1886 and received his Fellowship Diploma ( Frco ) at the Royal College of Organists. In 1892 he was appointed professor of organ and examiner at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music.

Larger caused a stir Lemare first time, when he in 1884 at an exhibition of inventions played on a single manual organ of the company Brindley & Foster over 100 concerts, while only two concerts in one day. This was followed by a position at the Park Hall, Cardiff, on the week he gave two concerts. Starting in 1886, undertook Lemare then toured extensively throughout England.

Since his studies held at churches in the London area Lemare different location, but also in Sheffield and Cardiff. At St Margaret 's Church in London, where he worked from 1897 to 1902, was even built in 1896 /97 by the company JW Walker and Son, a three-manual organ specially after Lemare ideas.

Because of its ever-increasing awareness undertook Lemare soon ansgedehnte concert tours abroad, including a tour with over 100 concerts across the U.S. and Canada in the years 1900 and 1901. According to this concert tour he gave up his post at St. Margaret's, and moved to the USA, where he also held various positions. Nevertheless, he undertook further concert tours that took him next to Europe and America and to New Zealand and Australia. There he was involved in the planning of the organs in the Auckland Town Hall and Melbourne Town Hall.

In 1925 Lemare a position as organist at the Soldiers and Sailorss Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to. There, the Austin Organ Company built in the year of his commencement of employment, a four-manual organ whose disposition also goes back to Lemare. However, Lemare was also this his last position in 1929. In 1934, he died in Hollywood.

Positions as organist

  • St Mary's, Brookfield, Highgate
  • St John's, Finsbury Park, 1882
  • Park Hall, Cardiff
  • Sheffield Parish Church, 1886
  • Albert Hall, Sheffield, 1886
  • Holy Trinity, Sloane Street, London, 1892
  • St Margaret 's Church, Westminster, 1897-1902
  • Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1902-1905
  • Panama - Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915
  • Urban organist in San Francisco, 1917-1920
  • Portland, Maine, 1921-1923
  • Organist at the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1924-1929

Work

Lemare had compared to his contemporaries an extremely rich repertoire, in addition to pieces, which was originally written for the organ, and transcriptions of orchestral works, such as by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Richard Wagner contained. From his game still bear witness to recordings for the Aeolian - Skinner Company ( 24 rolls ) of Dorchester in Massachusetts and for M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany. As one of the highest paid concert organists of his time, he never kept permanently adopted positions; Instead, he spent most of his life on tour, where he played in part before more than 10,000 people. Allegedly, he had this many times crossed the Atlantic, that the ship personnel have addressed him by name.

Moonlight and Roses

The Andantino in, known as the "Moonlight and Roses ", op.83 No. 2 ( 1888), is one of the few compositions Lemare, which are still played today. In the meantime, this work was so popular that the audience demanded it at least as an encore in every concert. Although several 1000 copies of the notes sold, hit Lemare initially no profit from his work, as he had sold it when it was released in 1892 for a fixed sum of three pounds sterling to the publisher Robert Cocks. The name " Moonlight and Roses " comes not from Lemare itself, but from a text, the American singer-songwriter Ben Black and Charles N. Daniels ( under the pseudonym Neil Moret ) 1921 unterlaubt attributed to Lemare work:

Moonlight and roses Bring wonderful mem'ries of you. My heart reposes In beautiful thoughts so true. June light disc -less Love's olden dreams sparkling anew Moonlight and roses Bring mem'ries of you.

1925, led Lemare a legal action to recover the rights to his play.

Organ Works

Own works

  • Allegretto in B minor
  • Andante Cantabile in F ( Op. 37)
  • Andantino in (known as " Moonlight & Roses " )
  • Arcadian idyll ( Op. 52 ) (1: Serenade; 2: Musette; 3: Solitude )
  • Barcarolle in A Flat
  • Bell Scherzo ( Op. 89)
  • Bénédiction Nuptiale ( Op. 85)
  • Berceuse in D
  • Cantique d' Amour ( Op. 47)
  • Caprice Orientale ( Op. 46)
  • Chanson d' Été in B flat
  • Chant de Boneur ( Op. 62)
  • Chant sans paroles in D
  • Cloches Sonores (Basso Ostinato ) - Symphonic sketch ( Op. 63)
  • Communion "Peace" ( Op. 68)
  • Concert Fantasia in F
  • Concert Piece No. 1 - In the form of a Polonaise ( Op. 80)
  • Concert Piece No. 2 - In the form of a Tarantella ( Op. 90)
  • Contemplation in D minor ( Op. 42)
  • Elegy in G
  • Evening Pastorale " The Curfew " ( Op. 128)
  • Fantaisie Fugue in G minor ( Op. 48)
  • Fantasy Dorienne in the form of variations ( Op. 101)
  • Gavotte in A Modern
  • Gavotte à la cour ( Op. 84)
  • Idyll in It
  • Impromptu in A
  • Intermezzo: Moonlight ( Op. 83/2 )
  • Intermezzo in B ( Op. 39)
  • Irish Air from " County Derry " (arr. by)
  • Madrigal in Des
  • Marche Héroïque ( Op. 74)
  • Marche Solenelle in It
  • Meditation in Des ( Op. 38)
  • Minuet Nuptiale ( Op. 103)
  • Nocturne in B minor ( Op. 41)
  • Pastorale No. 2 in C
  • Pastoral Poem ( Op. 54)
  • Pastorale in E
  • Reverie in It ( Op. 20)
  • Rhapsody in C minor ( Op. 43)
  • Romance in Des
  • Romance in Des (No 2 ) ( Op. 112)
  • Salut d' Amour ( Op. 127)
  • Scherzo
  • Second Andantino in
  • Sonata No. 1 in F ( Op. 95 ) (1: Maestoso; 2: Largo; 3: Scherzo; 4: Intermezzo; 5: Finale )
  • Spring Song - From the South ( Op. 56)
  • Summer Sketches ( 1: Dawn; 2: The Bee; 3: The Cuckoo; 4: Twilight; 5: Evening ) ( Op. 73) Sunshine ( Op. 83/1 )
  • Symphony No. 1 in G minor ( 1: Allegro Moderato; 2: Adagio Cantabile; 3: Scherzo; 4: Finale ) ( Op. 35)
  • Symphony No. 2 in D minor ( 1: Maestoso con fuoco; 2: Adagio patetico; 3: Scherzo; 4: Allegro giusto ) ( Op. 50)
  • Tears and Smiles (1: Tears; 2: Avatars ) ( Op. 133)
  • Toccata di concerto
  • Twilight Sketches ( Op. 138 ) (1: Sundown; 2: The Glow -Worm; 3: The Fire Fly; 4: Dusk )

Transcriptions

Johannes Brahms

  • Hungarian Dance ( No. 5 )

Edward Elgar

  • Gavotte in A
  • Landscapes ( Op. 4/1)
  • Pomp & Circumstance March No.. 1 ( Op. 39)
  • Salut d' Amour ( Op. 12)
  • Sursum Corda ( Élévation ) ( Op. 11)
  • Triumphal March from Caractacus ( Op. 35)

Richard Wagner

  • Overture to The Flying Dutchman
  • Overture to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
  • Overture to Tannhäuser
  • The Ride of the Valkyries from Wagner's Valkyrie
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