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Ralph Leopold (14 February 1884〔10 July 1955)〔 was an American pianist and piano teacher. ==Biography== Ralph Herman Leopold was born in 1884 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the son of Howard Leopold. His sister Elizabeth Leopold married Newton D. Baker,〔 who in 1912 was considered a possible vice-presidential running mate to Woodrow Wilson, and from 1916 to 1921 was United States Secretary of War. By 1911, he was teaching in Berlin, and played with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.〔(Reading Eagle, 20 November 1911 )〕 In World War I he was attached to the Army Bandmaster's School at Governors Island,〔(New York Times, 27 October 1919 )〕 Here he met and became a close friend of the Australian-born pianist and composer Percy Grainger, who had become an American citizen in June 1918.〔John Bird, ''Percy Grainger'', pp. 188, 194〕 Leopold and Grainger gave the first performance of the piano duet version of Grainger's ''Children's March: Over the Hills and Far Away''.〔(Percy Grainger.org )〕 Leopold was also the solo pianist in the first performance of the version for band and piano, with Grainger conducting the Goldman Band (6 June 1919).〔(Discogs )〕 After the war, Leopold played again in America〔(New York Times, 2 March 1920 )〕〔(New York Times, 27 October 1920 )〕 and Europe, where he appeared with several orchestras. On return to the United States he taught in Cleveland, Toledo, Texas, New York〔(Land of the Buckeye )〕 and a period at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.〔(Yiddish Music )〕 His students included Richard Franko Goldman,〔(New World Records )〕 Hugh Hodgson〔(Hodgson History and Bio )〕 and Max Helfman.〔 On 9 November 1925 in a recital in New York he played Ernő Dohnányi's ''Four Rhapsodies'', Op. 11, and a review credited him with "rediscovering Dohnányi".〔(James A Grymes, Ernst von Dohnanyi: A Bio-Bibliography )〕 Ralph Leopold died on 10 July 1955, aged 71.〔(Ancestry.com )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Leopold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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