• Harry Walter Legge (1 June 1906 – 22 March 1979) was an English classical music record producer, most especially associated with EMI. His recordings include...
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  • Legge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alexander Legge (1866–1933), US businessman, president of International Harvester Anthony...
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    disturbed as many as it thrilled and inspired.[page needed][page needed] Walter Legge stated that Callas possessed that most essential ingredient for a great...
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    invited to audition for Walter Legge, 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 Walter Legge between 1947 and 1950 resulted in the majority of the recordings of Lipatti's...
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    Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who...
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  • of Ely from 1945 until his death in 1973. Legge-Bourke was born as the only child of Lt. Nigel Walter Legge-Bourke (1889–1914), who was killed in action...
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    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...
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    October 1958. In their respective memoirs, Culshaw and Solti told how Walter Legge of Decca's rival EMI predicted that Das Rheingold would be a commercial...
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    de Curtis, Arturo Buzzi-Peccia, Stanislao Gastaldon, Cesare Cesarini, A. Walter Kramer, Carlo Innocenzi, Giovanni D'Anzi, Eldo Di Lazzaro, Vincenzo De Crescenzo...
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  • Alexandra Shân "Tiggy" Pettifer MVO (née Legge-Bourke; born 1 April 1965) is a British former nanny and companion to Prince William and Prince Harry....
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  • use the term 'producer', and was not an impresario like his protégé Walter Legge of EMI or an innovator like John Culshaw of Decca. Gaisberg concentrated...
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    363 Mann, William. "Legge, Walter", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, 2001. (subscription required) "Mr Walter Legge", The Times, 16 November...
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  • companies, in particular EMI with its own Society issues overseen by Walter Legge, had begun to take on the role of recording similar repertoire, so that...
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    best remembered for his Decca records; along with Fred Gaisberg and Walter Legge, he was one of the most influential producers of classical recordings...
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    John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron Walter Legge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
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    Walton moved from Decca to its older, larger rival, EMI. The EMI producer Walter Legge arranged a series of recordings of Walton's major works and many minor...
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  • Producer Walter Legge wrote that de Sabata put Callas through the "grinding mill" for half an hour to get it just right, though in Legge's view it was...
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    going to found one more great orchestra to round off my career." When Walter Legge founded the Philharmonia Orchestra in 1945, Beecham conducted its first...
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    William Walter Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth (12 August 1823 – 4 August 1891), styled Viscount Lewisham until 1853, was a British peer and Conservative...
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  • Slonimsky, Schirmer Books, New York, 1984, page 1178 Walter Legge; Alan Sanders (May 21, 1998). Walter Legge: words and music. Duckworth. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-7156-2774-7...
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    set up the first recording studio in London at Maiden Lane in 1898), Walter Legge, George Martin, Tutti Camarata, Geoff Emerick, Norman "Hurricane" Smith...
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    his name will live and shine as lustrous star is my firm conviction" ! Walter Legge, who was the record producer in these efforts, stated: "The visit to...
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    John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron Walter Legge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
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    baritone sounds he had ever heard (see Pleasants, cited below). Indeed Walter Legge, the prominent classical record producer, went so far as to call Ruffo...
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    John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron Walter Legge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
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  • in 1953. The Philharmonia Orchestra had been founded by Walter Legge in 1945 but in 1964 Legge announced that he intended to disband it. However the members...
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    method of score study, too, was somewhat unusual, as noted by his friend Walter Legge, who remarked: He is one of the few conductors I have known who has never...
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    Bruno Walter (born Bruno Schlesinger, September 15, 1876 – February 17, 1962) was a German-born conductor, pianist, and composer. Born in Berlin, he escaped...
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    John Culshaw C. Robert Fine Fred Gaisberg Klaus Heymann Alain Lanceron Walter Legge Edward Lewis Goddard Lieberson Richard Mohr Ted Perry Kenneth Wilkinson...
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