Harry Walter Legge (1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979) was an English classical music record producer, most especially associated with EMI. His recordings include many sets later regarded as classics and reissued by EMI as "Great Recordings of the Century". He worked in the recording industry from 1927, combining this with the post of junior music critic of The Manchester Guardian. He was assistant to Sir Thomas Beecham at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and in World War II played a role in bringing music to the armed forces and civilians.
After the war, Legge founded the Philharmonia Orchestra and worked for EMI as a recording producer. In the 1960s, he quarrelled with EMI and resigned. He attempted to disband the Philharmonia in 1964, but it continued as an independent body without him. After this he had no permanent job, and confined himself to giving masterclasses with, and supervising the recordings of, his second wife, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
Harry WalterLegge (1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979) was an English classical music record producer, most especially associated with EMI. His recordings include...
disturbed as many as it thrilled and inspired.[page needed][page needed] WalterLegge stated that Callas possessed that most essential ingredient for a great...
invited to audition for WalterLegge, an influential British classical record producer and a founder of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Legge asked her to sing...
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experimental injections of cortisone and his collaboration with record producer WalterLegge between 1947 and 1950 resulted in the majority of the recordings of Lipatti's...
Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by WalterLegge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who...
October 1958. In their respective memoirs, Culshaw and Solti told how WalterLegge of Decca's rival EMI predicted that Das Rheingold would be a commercial...
best remembered for his Decca records; along with Fred Gaisberg and WalterLegge, he was one of the most influential producers of classical recordings...
for William Legge, 2nd Baron Dartmouth. The Legge family descended from Edward Legge, Vice-President of Munster. His eldest son William Legge was a Royalist...
363 Mann, William. "Legge, Walter", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, 2001. (subscription required) "Mr WalterLegge", The Times, 16 November...
use the term 'producer', and was not an impresario like his protégé WalterLegge of EMI or an innovator like John Culshaw of Decca. Gaisberg concentrated...
de Curtis, Arturo Buzzi-Peccia, Stanislao Gastaldon, Cesare Cesarini, A. Walter Kramer, Carlo Innocenzi, Giovanni D'Anzi, Eldo Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo De Crescenzo...
set up the first recording studio in London at Maiden Lane in 1898), WalterLegge, George Martin, Tutti Camarata, Geoff Emerick, Norman "Hurricane" Smith...
John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron WalterLegge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
method of score study, too, was somewhat unusual, as noted by his friend WalterLegge, who remarked: He is one of the few conductors I have known who has never...
Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984, page 1178 WalterLegge; Alan Sanders (May 21, 1998). WalterLegge: words and music. Duckworth. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-7156-2774-7...
Road Studios on 9 January 1939 when Hassid had just turned 15; and then WalterLegge produced a further eight recordings on 12 and 28 June and 29 November...
Walton moved from Decca to its older, larger rival, EMI. The EMI producer WalterLegge arranged a series of recordings of Walton's major works and many minor...
his name will live and shine as lustrous star is my firm conviction" ! WalterLegge, who was the record producer in these efforts, stated: "The visit to...
John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron WalterLegge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
going to found one more great orchestra to round off my career." When WalterLegge founded the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945, Beecham conducted its first...
John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron WalterLegge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped...
Orchestra, London (his only appearances with that orchestra, produced by WalterLegge). Debussy, La mer (1950 and 1940 broadcast; only the 1950 version was...
John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron WalterLegge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
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