A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Leschetitzky, Theodor

by J. A. Fuller Maitland

LESCHETITZKY, Theodor, a distinguished pianist, born of Polish parents in 1831. He attracted notice in Vienna by his pianoforte playing in 1845. He was for some time a professor at the Conservatorium of St. Petersburg, from which appointment he has retired, and now lives in Vienna. His compositions chiefly consist of morceaux de salon for the piano. He made his début in England at the Musical Union concerts in 1864, playing in the Schumann Quintet, and solos of his own composition, and has frequently since then appeared at the same concerts. Madame Annette Essipoff was for some time his pupil. [App. p.700 "in 1880 he married his pupil, Mme. Essipoff. Also that an opera by him, 'Die erste Falte' was given at Prague in 1867."]

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