Henry Lemoine
{{Short description|French composer and music publisher}}
{{for multi|the English writer|Henry Lemoine (writer)|other people|Henri Lemoine (disambiguation)}}
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Henry Lemoine (21 October 1786 – 18 May 186
4) was a French music publisher, composer, and piano teacher.{{cite web|url=http://lccn.loc.gov/no92012162|website=lccn.loc.gov|title=Library of Congress Authorities, Lemoine, Henry, 1786-1864|accessdate=2018-05-18}}
Life
Henry Lemoine was born in Paris, to Antoine Marcel Lemoine and his wife. His father was a music publisher. The boy became a pupil of Anton Reicha, a composer and piano teacher.{{harvnb|IMSLP}}
In 1816 he took over his father's business. His father had founded the company in 1772. It still exists today under the name of Éditions Henry Lemoine.[https://www.henokiens.com/content.php?id=51&id_membre=17&lg=en "Éditions Henry Lemoine"], Henokiens Association
Lemoine was the publisher for Frédéric Chopin, Elise Rondonneau,{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Aaron I. |title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers |date=1987 |publisher=Books & Music (USA) |isbn=978-0-9617485-0-0 |page=599}} Mme H. Servier,{{Cite book |last=Servier |first=H.|author-link=Mme H. Servier|title=La Double échelle|type=opéra comique en 1 acte|oclc=844460200}} Charlotte Tardieu,{{Cite web|title=De Malleville Charlotte Souvenirs de Trye-Chateau Piano ca. 1852|url=https://www.partitions-anciennes.fr/en/nouveau/31064-de-malleville-charlotte-souvenirs-de-trye-chateau-piano-ca1852-.html|access-date=2021-08-20|website=Partitions anciennes|language=en}} Marcelle Villin, and many others. In 1844 he published Hector Berlioz's Traité d'orchestration.
He worked with Ferdinando Carulli to publish a solfège textbook by Adolphe Danhauser called Solfège des Solfèges, which is still in print. In 1850 Lemoine, then blind, turned over his company to his son Achilles Lemoine. Henry died in Paris in 1854, aged 67.
Lemoine's compositions are today generally regarded as unimportant. His piano method and harmony textbook, however, are still of much interest to students of the instrument. He composed numerous études of all levels.
Compositions
Lemoine wrote a number of works of music education (including Études infantines), an extensive collection of piano pieces called Bagatelles and Recreations Musicales. His Méthode et des études de piano is still in use today.
- Gandolf on rosebush
- Study in A minor
- Estudios infantiles para piano, 1866
- Solfeo de los solfeos
- Etudes enfantines
- Solfège des solfèges
- Études enfantines pour piano
- Il turco in Italia
- Jean de Paris
References
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Sources
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External links
- {{official website}}
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Category:19th-century French classical composers
Category:French Romantic composers
Category:French male classical composers