DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

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778 LUCREZIA BORGIA LUINIQ
Mozart. Produced at Milan, Dec. 26, 1772—the
last which he wrote for Italy. g.
LUCREZIA BORGIA. Opera in three acts ;
libretto adapted by Roinani from Victor Hugo's
drama, music by Donizetti. Produced at La
Scala, Milan, spring, 1834 given at the Theatre
;
Italion, Paris, Oct. 27, 1840. Victor Hugo
then stopped the performance, and the words
were re-written under the title of ' La Rin-
negata. ' In England it was produced (in two
acts) at Her Majesty's Theatre, June 6, 1839,
for the debut of Mario ; in English, at the
Princess's Theatre, Dec. 30, 1843. G.
LUDWIG, Joseph, violinist and composer,
was born in Bonn, April 6, 1844. He commenced
the study of music at the age of eleven,
and was sent, four years later, to the Cologne
Conservatorium, where he studied for four and
a half years under Grtinwald (violin), and Ferd.
Hiller (composition). Later he went to Hanover
and was taken in hand by Joachim, with whom
he remained two years. Then came the inevitable
military examinations, and an interregnum
during which music was put aside, after which
he accepted engagements to play solos in various
German towns. He came in 1870 to London,
where he received, shortly after his arrival, an
appointment at the London Academy of Music
in succession to Leopold Jansa. Since then he
has identified himself with English musical life,
taken out naturalisation papers, and won a
respected position as a performer of chamber
music, both in public and private. He has
given numerous quartet concerts in London and
provinces, his colleagues being usually G. Collins
(second violin), A. Gibson or A. Hobday (viola),
and W. E. Whitehouse (violoncello). In his
playing he recalls the manner of his master,
Joachim, whose serious artistic aims he shares.
He has written two symphonies, a pianoforte
quartet, and several smaller pieces for violin and
violoncello. He plays upon a Joseph Guarnieri
del Gesu violin, lent to him for life by a pupil.
It is a sister instrument to that of Paganini, the
upper table being made from the same piece of
wood. w. w. c.
LUDWIG, Paul, violoncellist, son of the
above, was born in Bonn, August 11, 1872.
He took early to the violoncello, studying at
first under Hugo Daubert, and W. E. Whitehouse
; went in 1890 to the Royal College of
Music, where he took some further lessons from
E. Howell and subsequently studied with Piatti,
through whose recommendation he came to
occupy the violoncello desk at the Popular
Concerts on many occasions, and always with
credit. Of late his style has considerably
ripened, and now, whether as soloist or chambermusic
player, he ranks high among the violon-
cellists resident in London. w. w. 0.
LUBECK, JoHANN Heinrioh, conductor
and violinist, born Feb. 11, 1799, at Alphen
in Holland ; held the post of capellmeister and
head of the Conservatoire at the Hague until
his death, Feb. 7, 1865. His eldest son, Ernst,
a very distinguished pianist, was born Aug. 24,
1829, and iirst appeared in public at twelve
years of age, when he played Beethoven's E|y
concerto. He made a tour to the United States,
Mexico, and Peru, which lasted from 1849 to
1854. On his return he was made Court pianist
at the Hague. In 1855 he moved to Paris,
where he principally resided until driven from
the city by the disturbances of the Commune,
which gave a shock to his brain from which it
never recovered. He became at length hopelessly
insane, and died Sept. 17, 1876. He wrote
only for piano. Among his compositions are
the following :—Berceuse in Ab, op. 13 ; Taren-
The
telle ; Polonaise, op. 14; 'Trilby the Sprite,
Reverie caracteristique. '
two former were
chosen by him for performance at the Philharmonic
Concert, May 7, 1860, when he also
played Mendelssohn's Concerto in G minor. In
the same year he first appeared at the Musical
Union. His playing was distinguished for
brilliancy and technical dexterity. Berlioz says
of him :
' Son talent est tout a fait extraor-
dinaire, non seulement par un mecanisme pro-
digieux, mais par un style musical excellent et
irreprochable. C'est la verve unie h. la raison,
la force unie b, la souplesse ; c'est brillant,
penetrant, et ^lastique commeune lame d'epee.'
His brother, Louis, born 1838 at the Hague,
was for some years teacher of the violoncello
at the Leipzig Conservatorium, until about
1872, when he moved to Frankfort. He was a
member of the Court orchestra at Berlin from
1880, and died at Berlin, March 8, 1904. M.
LUIGINI, Alexandre Clement LfeoN
Joseph, famous French conductor, was born at
Lyons, March 9, 1850 ; was a violin pupil of the
Paris Conservatoire, gaining a third accessit in
1867, a first accessit in 1868, and a second prize
in 1869. In the latter year he was appointed
leader of the orchestra in the Grand Thi^atre of
Lyons, becoming conductor there in 1877. He
held this post till 1897, when he became conductor
at the Opera Comique in Paris, at first
with Danb6, and afterwards (May 4, 1904) as
principal conductor, a post he still holds with
distinction. While at Lyons he was professor
in the Conservatoire there, and founded the
' Concerts Bellecour, ' and the ' Concerts du Conservatoire.'
He wrote numerous ballets, and
has also composed symphonic music :— ' Ballet
egyptien,' 'Ballet russe,' ' Marche de I'Emir,'
' Carnaval turc, '
chamber music, a
' Marche Solennelle, ' etc. ;
cantata, ' Gloria Victis,' performed
at Lyons, 1887, and lastly, 'Faublas,'
an opera-comique in three acts given at the
Theatre Cluny, Paris, Oct. 25, 1881, etc. G. F.
LUINIG, or LUINEAG, a choral song used
to accompany labour, sung (or formerly sung)
principally by women in the remote Highlands
and Islands of Scotland. Patrick M 'Donald,