Lamond, Frederick (Archibald)
Lamond, Frederick (Archibald)
Lamond, Frederick (Archibald), distinguished Scottish pianist; b. Glasgow, Jan. 28, 1868; d. Stirling, Feb. 21, 1948. He played organ as a boy in a local church, and also studied oboe and violin. In 1882 he entered the Raff Cons. in Frankfurt am Main, studying with Heer-mann (violin), Max Schwarz (piano), and Urspruch (composition); then piano with Bülow, Clara Schumann, and Liszt. He made his debut in Berlin (Nov. 17, 1885), then appeared in Vienna and Glasgow, and later in London, N.Y., and Russia. He married the German actress Irene Triesch (1904), making Berlin his center of activities until the coming of World War II, when he went to England. While continuing to make tours, he also was engaged as a pedagogue. He became renowned for his performances of Beethoven and Liszt; publ. an ed. of the Beethoven piano sonatas and the book Beethoven: Notes on the Sonatas (Glasgow, 1944); his reminiscences appeared as The Memoirs of Frederic Lamond (Glasgow, 1949). He was also a composer, numbering among his works a Sym. (Glasgow, Dec. 23, 1889), some chamber music, and numerous piano pieces.
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