Henry Lemoine

Henry Lemoine (21 October 1786 – 18 May 1854) was a French music publisher, composer, and piano teacher.^[1]

Life

Henry Lemoine was born in Paris, to Antoine Marcel Lemoine and his wife. His father was a music publisher. The boy became a pupil of Anton Reicha, a composer and piano teacher.^[2]

In 1816 he took over his father's business.^[2] His father had founded the company in 1772. It still exists today under the name of Éditions Henry Lemoine.^[3]

Lemoine was the publisher for Frédéric Chopin,^[2] Elise Rondonneau,^[4] Mme H. Servier,^[5] Charlotte Tardieu,^[6] Marcelle Villin, and many others. In 1844 he published Hector Berlioz's Traité d'orchestration.^[2]

He worked with Ferdinando Carulli to publish a solfège textbook by Adolphe Danhauser called Solfège des Solfèges, which is still in print. In 1850 Lemoine, then blind, turned over his company to his son Achilles Lemoine. Henry died in Paris in 1854, aged 67.

Lemoine's compositions are today generally regarded as unimportant. His piano method and harmony textbook, however, are still of much interest to students of the instrument.^[3] He composed numerous études of all levels.

Compositions

Lemoine wrote a number of works of music education (including Études infantines), an extensive collection of piano pieces called Bagatelles and Recreations Musicales. His Méthode et des études de piano is still in use today.