4-588: Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach (17 July 1817 – 23 May 1891) was a French pianist, organist, music educator and a composer of salon piano music . 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
8-443: A popular opera are the basis of the composition, and the musical character-piece, which portrays in music a particular situation or narrative. Many popular composers wrote at least a few pieces which fall into the category of salon music. Some pianists composed only salon music, but many of these specialists have become highly obscure. The following is a list of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century composers in whose work salon music
12-633: 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 . Salon music Salon music
16-497: Was a popular music genre in Europe during the 19th century. It was usually written for solo piano in the romantic style, and is often performed by the composer at events known as " Salons ". Salon compositions are usually fairly short and often focus on virtuoso pianistic displays or emotional expression of a sentimental character. Common subgenres of salon music are the operatic paraphrase or fantasia, in which multiple themes from
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