Ethel Leginska (born Ethel Liggins) 1886 Hull, England - Died 1970 Los Angeles, USA
Precociously talented child. She was sponsored by the Wilson ship owning family to study at the Hoch Conservatory, Frankfurt, Germany and later studied piano with Leschetizky in Vienna. In her late thirties she studied conducting under Eugene Goosens. She had three musical careers, as a pianist, as a composer and later as a highly successful conductor, in London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Boston, New York and even The Hollywood Bowl.
Orchestral
'Beyond the Fields We Knew' 1921
Fantasy for piano and orchestra 1922
Four Subjects Barbares 1923
Two short pieces 1924
Chamber
String quartet
Triptych for eleven instruments
Piano
Cradle song
'Dance of a puppet'
'Gargoyles of Notre Dame' 1920
Scherzo after Tagore 1920
Three Victorian Portraits 1957
Songs
'At Dawn' words by A Symons 1919
'Bird Voices of Spring' words by C S Whittern 1919
The Frozen Heart' words by O J Bierbaum1919
'The Gallows Tree' 1919
Six Nursery Rhymes 1928
'In a Garden' 1928
Opera
'The Rose and the Ring' 1932
'Gale' (The Haunting) 1935