Ignace Leybach

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.

References

Oscar Thompson Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, 1949: Ignace Leybach

"Théophile Gautier, sa famille et la musique" note 18.

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1817 births

1891 deaths

19th-century classical composers

19th-century French male classical pianists

19th-century French composers

Cathedral organists

Classical composers of church music

Composers for piano

Composers for pipe organ

French classical organists

French male classical composers

French music educators

French Romantic composers

French male organists

Musicians from Bas-Rhin

Piano pedagogues

Male classical organists

19th-century organists