DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

LEKEU LEMLIN 673
still find of his micle's works, French chansons
a 4, 5, 8, canons, psalms, a magnificat, a fantaisie,
Latin motets, and Italian madrigals.
In the higher branches of composition LeJeune
never met with great success. The Belgian and
Italian masters would not look at his writings. ^
Burney regarded him as a man of study and
labour rather than of genius and facility, but this
judgment was onlj- passed on some of his very
earliest works.- Fetis, on the other hand, considered
him naturally gifted, but without the
education of a great master ; and this opinion
seems to be borne out by the successof hissimpler,
and the failure of his more elaborate works.
Le Jeune is generally regarded as a Frenchman,
though his birthplace did not become part of
France till 1677. It would, however, be no great
honour to be called the chief musician of an
ungrateful country, which suffered Jannerjuin in
his old age to bewail his poverty, which had
killed poor Goudimel, and could now only boast
of a decaying and frivolous school. It is more
to his honour to remember him as the composer
of one little book which was destined, after his
death, to carry God's music to the hearts of
thousands in many lands. J. K. s. -B.
LEKEU, GuiLL.-i-i'JiE, born at Heusy, in the
pirovince of Liege, Jan. 20, 1870, was a pupil of
the Conservatoire of Yerviers, and subsequently
studied with Cesar Franck and Vincent d'Indy
in Paris. He obtained the second prix de Rome
in Belgium, with his scene lyrique ' Andromede,'
which was followed by various symphonic com-
positions, works for voice and different instru-
Tuents, many of which were unfortunately left
incomplete at his early death. This took place
at Angers, Jan. 31, 1894. His works include
a sonata in G for piano and violin, dedicated to
Ysaye ; a trio for piano and strings, in which
passages of very high rank alternate with weak
a string quartet, finished
and confused portions ;
by d'Indy ; and, lastly, a ' fantaisie sur deux
airs jiopulaires angevins,' frequently played in
Belgium and France. IM. Ysaye has often conducted
Lekeu's Etude symphonique on 'Hamlet,'
an intimately poetical work, and an adagio for
quartet and orchestra, of finely elegiac character.
Most of Lekeu's compositions are published by
Baudoux of Paris and Muraille of Liege. Ji. k.
LE IMAISTRE, Matthaus, a Flemish
musician of the 16th century, supposed to have
come originally from Liege, succeeded Johann
AYalther in 1554 as capellnieister to the Saxon
Court at Dresden. He retired on a pension in
1568, and died about 1577. Otto Kade, in his
otherwise excellent monograph on this composer
(published 1862), made tile mistake of identifying
him with Matthias Hermann, surnamed
AVerrecorensis,whowaschoirmaster at theDuomo
of Milan, and so represented Le Maistreas having
come from Milan to Dresden ; but the Milan choir-
1 Mersenne. Ilariii. Cniv. iv, 197. and Burney, iii, 27:1.
2 Except a anion, the pieces of Le Jeune's in Dr. Burney's MS,
notebooks are .luiong ttie composer's lirat pubiicfttions in 15&4.
master has since been proved to be a different
person altogether from Le Maistre the Dresden
capellnieister. Le Maistre's publications are (1)
Catechesis (Nuremberg, 15 63) ; this work consists
mainly of a few simple, notc-for-note settings of
the chief parts of the Lutheran Catechism in
Latin, the Paternoster for four voices on the
Plain-Song Melody, the Creed, and other pieces,
for three voices. (2) Geistliche und weltliche
Gesangea 4 and 5 (Wittenberg, 1566), seventy
sacred songs and twenty-two secular. (3) Liber
I. sacrarum cantionum (Dresden, 1570), fifteen
Latin Motets a 5. (4) Deutsche und Lateinische
geistliche Gesange (Dresden, 1577), twenty-four
numbers a 3. Two motets by Le Maistre were
received into the great collection Thesaurus
Musicus (Nuremberg, 1664), one of which Estate
Prudcntes for four voices, has been reprinted by
Comnier in his Colhetio, etc. , torn. viii. Also a
mass a 5 was published in 1568. Other masses
and ofticia have remained in MS. Kade's Jlonograph
contains ten of Le Maistre's Geistliche
Gesange, and five weltliche Gesange, two of
which are Quodlibets, that is, pieces with
various texts and melodies combined. Two
other pieces are contained in the Beilagen zv,
Amhros Ursi:hii:lite. J. 11. JI.
LEMARE, Edwin Henry, born at Ventnor,
Isle of "Wight, Sept. 9, 1S65, was elected to
the Goss scholarship at the Royal Academy of
Music in 1878, and became an associate on the
completion of his studies. He was subsequently
elected to a fellowship of the same institution,
and in 1884 was made a fellow of the Royal
College of Organists. His successive appointments
as organist are as follows ; — St. John
the Evangelist's, Brownswood Park ; St. Andrew's
Church, and the Public Hall, Cardiff
the Parish Church, Shelfield (1886); Holy
Trinity, Sloane Street ; and St. Margaret's,
Westminster. During his tenure of these last
two posts, he became famous as a solo player
and a giver of recitals of more than the usual
interest. He excels in the representation of
orchestral works upon the organ, but his
playing of legitimate organ music is remarkably
artistic and intelligent. He has written much
for his instrument, and has edited various series
of compositions for it. Since the death of W.
T. Best, Lemare has been generally considered
the most brilliant of contemporary organists.
In 1902 he accepted the post of organist and
director of the music at Carnegie Hall, Pittsburgh,
U.S.A., but after two years' tenure of this post
he returned to England. {Brit. Miis. Biorj. ;
Mtis. Times, 1899, p. 164, and 1902, p. 96.) M.
LEMLIN ( = LAMMLEIN), Lorenz, a German
composer of the earlier part of the 16th
century, came from Eichstatt in Bavaria, and
in 1513 attended the University of Heidelberg.
He was afterwards singer and capellnieister to
the Elector Palatine at Heidelberg. Georg
Forster mentions him with respect as his worthy
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