Liza lehmann+biography

Elisabetha 'Liza' Lehmann (1862-1918) was born into a middle-class English family in 1862.
Liza Lehmann was an English soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions.
Born July 11, 1862 in London during the height of Queen Victoria's both her parents were involved in the arts: her father was a painter and her.

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Liza Lehmann

English soprano and composer (1862–1918)

Liza Lehmann (11 July 1862 – 19 September 1918) was an English soprano and composer, known for her vocal compositions.^[1]

After vocal studies with Alberto Randegger and Jenny Lind, and composition studies with teachers including Hamish MacCunn, Lehmann made her singing debut in 1885 in London and pursued a concert career for nearly a decade. In 1894, she married and left the stage. She then concentrated on composing music, becoming known for her songs, including many children's songs. She also composed several pieces for the stage and wrote a textbook on singing. In 1910, she toured the United States, where she accompanied her own songs in recitals. She was the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and became a professor of singing at the Guildhall School of Music in 1913.

Biography

She was born Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica Lehmann in London.^[2] Her father was the German painter Rudolf Lehmann, and her mother was Amelia (A.L.) Chambers, a music teacher, composer and arra

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The “Straight-Backed, High-Nosed, Stiff-Necked, Great British Young Lady”: Music and Art of Liza Lehmann

Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) was one of the most prolific song composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and an influential vocal pedagogue.

Written by Amanda DuBose, Music and Performing Arts Librarian; Danny Sarmiento, Curator, 20th Century to Present, the Special Collections Research Center; and Irina Savinetskaya, Curator, Early to Pre-20th Century Curator, the Special Collections Research Center

Liza Lehmann (1862–1918) was one of the most prolific song composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and an influential vocal pedagogue (Fig. 1). Between 1890 and her death in 1918, Lehmann published some 334 songs and cycles – the most by any female composer in Great Britain and the United States during that period.[1] Lehmann was elected the first president of the Society of Women Musicians and published several volumes on song and recitative practice and pedagogy. The success of her writings was supported in part by her already established reputation as a