Ethel Leginska 1886-1970

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Ethel Leginska (born Ethel Liggins) 1886 Hull, England - Died 1970  Los Angeles, USA

Precociously talented child.  She was sponsored by the Wilson ship owning family to study at the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt, Germany and later studied piano with Leschetizky in Vienna. In her late thirties she studied conducting under Eugene Goosens.  She had three musical careers, as a pianist, as a composer and later as a highly successful conductor, in London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Boston, New York and even The Hollywood Bowl.

Orchestral

'Beyond the Fields We Knew'  1921
Fantasy for piano and orchestra 1922
Four Subjects Barbares  1923
Two short pieces  1924

Chamber

String quartet
Triptych for eleven instruments

Piano

Cradle song
'Dance of a puppet'
'Gargoyles of Notre Dame' 1920
Scherzo after Tagore  1920
Three Victorian Portraits  1957

Songs

'At Dawn'  words by A Symons  1919
'Bird Voices of Spring'   words by C S Whittern  1919
The Frozen Heart'  words by O J Bierbaum1919
'The Gallows Tree'  1919
Six Nursery Rhymes 1928
'In a Garden'  1928

Opera

'The Rose and the Ring'  1932
'Gale' (The Haunting) 1935