ABSTRACT
Record industry executive, with the Gramophone Co. and later with EMI from 1927 to 1964. He began as a writer of HMV liner notes, and became one of the great record producers. One of his innovations, in 1931, was the concept of society records-material of specialized interest sold by subscription. From 1945 until his retirement in 1964 he supervised recordings for EMI. He was married to the soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who collected some of his writings and various articles about him into a book, On and Off the Record: A Memoir of Walter Legge (New York: Scribner, 1982). [Sanders 1984.]
German soprano, born in Würzburg. She studied in Prague as a child and made her debut there in October 1865; she then sang elsewhere and at the Berlin Opera from 1870. In Bayreuth she was coached by Richard Wagner, and created the roles of Wöglinde, Helmwige, and the Forest Bird. Her Metropolitan Opera debut was as Carmen, on 25 Nov 1885; she sang with the Metropolitan until 1890, doing the Wagner repertoire and Italian roles with Jean and Edouard De Reszke. Lehmann performed 170 different roles, and also gained distinction as a Lieder singer. She died in Berlin.
