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Ignace Leybach

1817 – 1891

French musician

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Lived 1817 – 1891 (aged 73). Ignace Leybach was a French composer, music educator, pianist, organist and teacher.

Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach (17 July 1817 – 23 May 1891) was a French pianist, organist, music educator and a composer of salon piano music.

Career 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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Who was Ignace Leybach?

French musician (1817-1891)

When was Ignace Leybach born?

Ignace Leybach was born on 17 July 1817 in Gambsheim.

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Ignace Leybach died on 23 May 1891 in Toulouse.

What was Ignace Leybach's occupation?

Ignace Leybach was a composer, music educator, pianist, organist and teacher.

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Ignace Leybach was French.

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· Wikipedia: Ignace Leybach

· Wikidata: Q1657222

· DBpedia: Ignace Leybach

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