Sigmund (Zygmunt or Siegmund) Lebert, born Samuel Levi on 12 December 1821 in

Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...

and died on 8 December 1884 in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, was a German pianist and music teacher, and one of the founders of the Stuttgart Music School. With

Ludwig Stark Ludwig Stark (19 June 1831 – 22 March 1884) was a German pianist, composer, teacher and musicologist. Stark was born in Munich. He studied philosophy and music at the University of Munich and at the age of twenty-six co-founded the Conservat ...

and others he prepared a large number of works for the use of students there, including the ''Grosse theoretisch-praktische Klavierschule'', a piano method which was translated into several languages and widely distributed in both Europe and America. Together with

Franz Liszt Franz Liszt, in modern usage ''Liszt Ferenc'' . Liszt's Hungarian passport spelled his given name as "Ferencz". An orthographic reform of the Hungarian language in 1922 (which was 36 years after Liszt's death) changed the letter "cz" to simpl ...

and the cooperation of Ignaz Lachner,

Vincenz Lachner Vinzenz Lachner (also spelled Vincenz) (19 July 1811 – 22 January 1893)"Vinzenz Lachner", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians''. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1980. was a German composer and conductor. Early life Born in Rain am L ...

and Immanuel Faisst, he created arrangements of piano works by

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 17565 December 1791), baptised as Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition r ...

, and with Hans von Bulow, the famous Cotta edition of the

piano sonata A piano sonata is a sonata written for a solo piano. Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, Medtner, Berg), others with t ...

s of

Ludwig van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

published in 1881.

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