Leonard Liebling

Leonard Liebling (February 7, 1874 – October 28, 1945

Life and career Born into a Jewish family in New York City, Liebling was the son of composer Max Liebling (1845–1927) and his wife Matilde née de Perkiewicz. His father and his three uncles, Emil, Sally, and Georg Liebling, were all pupils of Franz Liszt and had successful careers as pianists and composers. He then worked as a concert pianist and piano teacher in Europe before returning to the United States to join the staff of the Musical Courier, a music journal published weekly, in 1902. He also concurrently served as music critic for the New York Journal-American from 1923 to 1936. revived in 1913 as The American Maid); The Girl and the Kaiser (1910, with music by Georg Jarno); Vera Violetta (1911, with music by Edmund Eysler); and Frederick Lonsdale and Frank Curzon's The Balkan Princess (1911 Broadway version).

Liebling died of a heart attack at the Hotel Buckingham, now The Quin, in New York City in 1945.