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.
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Ignace Leybach
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- Born
- 1817 · Gambsheim.
- Died
- 1891 · Toulouse.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- composer · music educator · pianist · organist · teacher
- Movements
- classical music
- Teachers
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner · Frédéric Chopin · Joseph Wackenthaler
- Languages
- French
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Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach (17 July 1817 – 23 May 1891) was a French pianist, organist, music educator and a composer of salon piano music.
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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.
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Ignace Leybach is recorded with the occupation music educator. Recorded as composer, music educator, pianist, organist and teacher.
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1817
Ignace Leybach was born on 17 July 1817.
1891
Ignace Leybach died on 23 May 1891.
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