DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

674 LEMMENS LENEPVEU
preceptor in music, and inserts fifteen of his
master's Lieder in his collections of 1539 and
1549. Eitner speaks very slightingly of these
Lieder (MonatAcfU, xxvi. 1894, p. 89), while
on the other hand Ambros judges them very
favourably (GestAicAfe (ZcrJ/itsii', iii. pp. 403-4).
The only one accessible in a modern reprint is
a humorous ' cuckoo ' song for six voices, which
Ambros describes as quite a charming piece
iin Volkston, ' Der Gutz - gauch auf dem
Zaune sass.' This was first republished by
C. F. Becker in his book. Die Hausmusik in
Deutschland, Leipzig, 1840, and is also contained
in Eitner's recent republication of
Forster's Liederbuch of 1540. The only other
known works of Lemlin are a few Latin motets
in collections from which Ambros singles out
' * for special mention a very beautiful ' In manus
tuas. J. R. M.
LEMMENS, Nicholas Jacques, was born
Jan. 3, 1823, at Zoerle-Parwys, Westerloo,
Belgium, where his father was provost and
organist. His career was attached to the organ
from the first. At eleven years of age he was
put under Van der Broeck, organist at Dieste.
In 1 8 3 9 he entered the Conservatoire at Brussels,
but soon left it owing to the illness of his
father, and was absent for a couple of years.
In the interval he succeeded his former master
at Dieste, but fortunately gave this up and
returned to the Conservatoire at the end of
1841. There he became the pupil of Fctis and
was noted for the ardour and devotion with
which he worked. He took the second prize
for composition in 1844 and the first in 1845,
as well as the tirst for organ-playing. In 1846
he went, at the government expense, to Breslau,
and remained there a year, studying the organ
under A. Hesse, who sent him back at the
end of that time, with a testimonial to the
effect tliat ' he played Bach as well as he him-
self did.' In 1849 he became professor of his
instrument at the Conservatoire, and M. Fetis,
as the head of the establishment, bears strong
testimony to the vast improvement which
followed this appointment, and the new spirit
which it infused through the country ; and
gives a list of his pupils, too long to be quoted
here. Though distinguished as a pianist, it is
with the organ that his name will remain
connected. In 1857 M. Lemmens married
Miss Sherrington, and from that time resided
much in England. His great work is his
jir.ole d'orgiie, which has been adopted by the
Conservatoires at Paris, Brussels, Madrid, etc.
He also pjublished Sonatas, Offertoires, etc.,
for the organ, and was engaged for twenty
years on a Method for accompanying Gregorian
Cliants, which was edited by J. Duclos after the
author's death, and published at Ghent in
1886. Four volumes of aiuvrrs inedifcs were
published liy Breitkopf & Hiirtel. Lemmens
died Jan. 30, 1881, at Castle Linterport near
Malines. On Jan. 1, 1879, he opened a college
at Malines, under the patronage of the Belgium
clergy, for training Catholic organists and
choirmasters, which was soon largely attended.
Madame Lemmens, nee Sherrington, was born
at Preston, where her family had resided for
several generations, Oct. 4, 1834. Her mother
was a musician. In 1838 they migrated to
Rotterdam, and there Miss Sherrington studied
under Verhulst. In 1852 she entered the
Brussels Conservatoire, and took first prizes for
singing and declamation. On April 7, 1856,
she made her first appearance in London, and
soon rose to tlie position of leading English
soprano, both in sacred and secular music, a
position which she maintained for many years.
In 1860 she appeared on the English, and in
1 866 on the Italian operatic stage, and her operas
included 'Robin Hood,' ' ' Amber Witch, ' Hel-
vellyn,' 'Africaine,' 'Norma,' 'Huguenots,'
'Roberto,' 'Don Giovanni,' 'Domino Noir,'
' Fra Diavolo, ' 'Marta, ' etc., etc. G.
LEMOINE, a well-known Paris firm of musicpublishers.
It was founded in 1793 by Antoine
Marcel Lemoixe (born at Paris, Nov. 3, 1763 ;
died there in April 1817), who was a performer
on the guitar, and played tlie viola in the
orchestra of the Theatre dc Monsieur. His son,
Henri (born at Paris, Oct. 21, 1786 ; died there
May 18, 1854), was a pupil of the Conservatoire
in 1798-1809, and was one of the most successful
piano-teachers of Paris ; he took over the business
on his father's death, and raised it to a high
position. His educational compositions include
a Petite 'inHliode eUnientaire for piano ; a TraiU
d'harirmnie pratique ; a Solfhge des Solflgcs, in
ten small volumes ; Tablettes du Pianiste, etc.,
which are still in use. Achille Philibert
Lemoine, the son of Henri (born at Paris, 1813 ;
died at Sevres, August 13, 1895), was a partner
from 1850, and two years afterwards undertook
the sole direction of the firm. In 1858 he added
to it an establishment for engraving and musicprinting,
which gave a great impulse to the
business ; this was carried still farther by the
acquisition of the ' fonds Schoneljerger. ' In
1885 Lemoine founded a branch establishment
at Brussels, in association with his sons, Henri
and Li5oN, who, since his death have carried it
on. Among the numerous publications of the
house, may be mentioned the Eepertoire classique
du chant fram;ais, and the Piepertoire de
Vancien chant classiq%te, both edited by Gevaert,
and both remarkably useful and universally
known. g. f.
LENEPVEU, Charles Ferdinand, born at
Rouen, Oct. 4, 1840. After finishing his classical
studies at his native place, he came to Paris by
his father's desire to study law, and at the same
time he learnt solfege from Savard, a professor
at the Conservatoire. His first essay as a composer
w^as a cantata composed for the centenary
of the Society d' Agriculture et de Commerce of