Henry Lemoine

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Jean-Henry Lemoine (born October 21, 1786 in Paris ; † May 18, 1854 ibid) was a French music publisher, music teacher and composer.

Life

Lemoine, a student of Anton Reicha and Louis Adams , worked as a successful piano teacher in Paris. In 1816 he took over from his father Antoine Marcel Lemoine (1753-1817) the music publishing house that he founded in 1772 and that still exists today under the name of Éditions Henry Lemoine .

Lemoine became Frédéric Chopin's publisher . In 1844 he published Hector Berlioz 's instrumentation theory, Traité d'orchestration . With Ferdinando Carulli , he published a Solfège textbook on which Adolphe Danhauser's Solfège des Solfèges is based, which to this day has been published in many editions with 10 million copies.

In addition, Lemoine composed a number of music-pedagogical works (including études infantines ), an extensive collection of piano pieces called Bagatelles and the Recreations musicales . His Méthode et des études de piano is still in use today. With the guitarist Fernando Sor he published a four-volume school of time for piano ( École de la mesure et de la ponctuation musicale ), the second edition of which appeared in 1877.

In 1850 Lemoine went blind and in 1852 handed over the management of his music publishing house to his son Achille Lemoine , who bought his own printing press for the publishing house for the first time. In the period that followed, the company continued to develop successfully and published works by important composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Clementi, Liszt, César Franck, Paganini and Rossini.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mary Criswick: Lettre de France. In: Guitar & Laute 7, 1985, issue 2, p. 35.
  2. ^ Friedrich Gersmann: Classical Tempo for Classical Music. Part 4. In: Guitar & Laute 8, 1986, 6, pp. 37-46
  3. ↑ Mary Criwick (1985).
personal data
SURNAME Lemoine, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemoine, Jean-Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French music publisher, music teacher and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1854
Place of death Paris