Lash, Aime

Aime Charles Lach ( Fr. Aimé-Charles Lachaume ; December 13, 1871 , Paris - 1944 , Paris ) - French-American pianist and composer.

He graduated from the Paris Conservatory (1889), a student of Georges Matiah and Charles Wilfrid de Berio . In the same year, he debuted with the Colonna Orchestra .

Since 1893, he lived and worked in the United States for at least two decades. He made his debut as a pianist in the New York production of Andre Wormser ’s ballet “The Prodigal Son”. In 1894 he took part in a large American tour of a group of famous artists, which included Eugene Isai , Henri Marto , Jean Gerardi and Max Bendix ; in 1897, accompanied on a tour by Achille Rivard . In 1894, Lash made his New York debut as a ballet composer. In 1896, he led a music school in Utica . In 1898, he recorded on the phonograph a number of plays by Beethoven , Chopin , Godard , Liszt and Debussy . In 1899, with the music of Lashom, the New York production of The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann took place . In the first decade of the 20th century, Lash wrote music for several operettas and theatrical productions on various New York scenes, as well as a variety of dance pieces; The operetta Madmoiselle Smile ( French Mam'zelle Sourire ; 1906) and the comic opera Madame Malbrook ( French Madame Malbrough ; 1909, the libretto by Lucien Metive ) were most famous .