Sally Liebling, sometimes given as Solly Liebling, (8 April 185915 September 1909) was a German pianist, composer, and teacher.

Biography

Born in the

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, Liebling was from a prominent

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family of musicians. His three brothers,

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, and Max Liebling, were also successful pianists, and all four of them were trained on the piano by

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 ...

. Sally studied with Liszt at

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in 1884. The four brothers also had success as composers in addition to being notable performers. His older brother Max moved to New York City as a teenager having already had a career as a concert pianist in Europe. Max was the father of several successful musicians, including the soprano and famous voice teacher

Estelle Liebling Estelle Liebling (April 21, 1880 – September 25, 1970) was an American soprano, composer, arranger, music editor, and celebrated voice teacher and vocal coach. Born into the Liebling family of musicians, she began her professional opera car ...

; the cellist James Liebling; and the music critic, pianist, composer, and opera librettist

Leonard Liebling Leonard Liebling (February 7, 1874 – October 28, 1945) was an American music critic, writer, librettist, editor, piano, pianist, and composer. He is best remembered as the long time editor-in-chief of the ''Musical Courier'' from 1911 to 1945. ...

. In addition to his time as a pupil of Liszt, Sally Liebling pursued further studies in music and the piano under Theodor Kullak,

Franz Bendel Franz Bendel (23 March 18333 July 1874) was a German Bohemian pianist, composer, and teacher. Bendel was born in Schönlinde, Bohemia, Austrian Empire. He was a student of Franz Liszt for five years in Weimar. From 1862, he lived in Berlin an ...

and

Carl Friedrich Weitzmann Carl Friedrich Weitzmann (10 August 1808 – 7 November 1880) was a German music theorist and musician. Life and work Weitzmann was born in Berlin and first studied violin in the 1820s with Carl Henning and Bernhard Klein. From 1827 to 1832 he st ...

in Berlin. He made a number of concert tours in Germany, and with Theodore Thomas's orchestra in the United States (1875). He subsequently gave many recitals with well-known artists. In 1888 he founded the New Conservatory of Music at Berlin where he taught until his death. His students included

Selmar Janson Selmar Janson (27 May 188119 November 1960) was a German-born American pianist and teacher, whose most prominent student was Earl Wild. His surname is also seen as Jansen. Biography Selmar Janson was born in eastern Prussia in 1881, the son of Her ...

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