Ignace Leybach
Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach (17 July 1817 – 23 May 1891) was a French pianist, organist, music educator and a composer of salon piano music.
Career
[edit]Born in Gambsheim, Alsace, Leybach had his early training as an organist with Joseph Wackenthaler (1795–1869), the organist and maître de chapelle of the Strasbourg Cathedral, and then was a pupil in Paris of Friedrich Kalkbrenner and of Chopin. He was a famous pianist in his time, but is largely remembered for a single piece, his Fifth Nocturne, Op. 52, for solo piano; it is still in print. His Fantaisie élégante uses familiar themes from Gounod's Faust.
From 1844 he was organist at the cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Toulouse, succeeding Justin Cadaux. He published a three-volume method for the organ for which he also wrote about 350 pieces. Leybach also wrote motets and liturgical music.
Leybach died in Toulouse.
References
[edit]- Oscar Thompson Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1949: Ignace Leybach
- "Théophile Gautier, sa famille et la musique" note 18.
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- 1817 births
- 1891 deaths
- 19th-century classical composers
- 19th-century French male classical pianists
- 19th-century French composers
- Cathedral organists
- Classical composers of church music
- Composers for piano
- Composers for pipe organ
- French classical organists
- French male classical composers
- French Romantic composers
- Musicians from Bas-Rhin
- French piano educators
- French male classical organists
- 19th-century organists