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Ethel Leginska
Ethel Leginska née Liggins (13 April 188626 February 1970) was a British pianist, composer, conductor and music educator, having among her students harpsichordist Gavin Williamson, a long-time student of Artur Schnabel and Theodor Leschetizky, James Henry Fields, Daniel Pollack and Bruce Sutherland.〔 She was a pioneer of women's opportunity in music performance and conducting, being the first woman in music history to conduct many of the world's leading orchestras.〔
==Life and career==
Ethel Liggins was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England, to Thomas and Annie Peck Liggins.〔 With support from wealthy patron Mary Emma Wilson, she attended the Hoch conservatory in Frankfurt, where she studied piano under James Kwast, and composition under Bernhard Sekles and Iwan Knorr.〔 She also studied in Vienna in 1900 with Theodor Leschetizky.〔 She went on tour in Australia in 1905, and performed in Europe under the stage name Ethel Leginska from 1906 on, as suggested by Lady Maud Warrende.〔 She married American Roy Emerson Whittern in 1907 and had one son,〔 but the couple divorced in 1918 and Leginska resumed her career, making her American debut in New York's Aeolian Hall on 20 January 1913.〔 After an unsuccessful custody fight for her son Cedric,〔 she became outspoken about inadequate opportunities for women.〔
In 1923, Leginska went to London to study orchestral conducting with Eugène Aynsley Goossens.〔 The following year she worked with Robert Heger, conductor of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich and conducted a performance of her orchestral suite ''Quatre sujets barbares.''〔 In 1925, she made her debut as a conductor in the United States with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Carnegie Hall.〔 She ended her performing career in 1926 and turned to conducting, composing and teaching. She had been working as a conductor since the early twenties, using her status as a performer to book engagements as a guest conductor of European orchestras by promising to play as soloist.
After conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forte-piano-pianissimo.com/Ethel-Leginska.html )〕 Leginska continued to find engagements in American cities including Boston and Los Angeles.〔 She established the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston English Opera Company,〔 founded the National Women's Symphony Orchestra in New York in 1932 and served as director of the Chicago Women's Symphony Orchestra.〔 In the late 1930s she lived in London and Paris before settling in 1939 in Los Angeles, where she founded the Concert Office ''New Ventures in Music,''〔 set up a studio and worked as a piano teacher. Leginska Ethel died in Los Angeles of a stroke on 26 February 1970, aged 83.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ETHEL LEGINSKA (Ethel Liggins) )〕
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