English singer and composer Elisabetha Nina Mary Frederica "Liza" Lehmann (1862-1918) was born in London to German painter Rudolf Lehmann and his Italian wife. Among her teachers was the great Jenny Lind. A combination of marriage to composer, author, and artist Herbert Bedford and what seems to have been a case of Bell's Palsy ended her singing career but allowed her to focus fully on composition.
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- Liza Lehmannn Biography with emphasis on her ventures into British musical comedies with related material from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive.
- Liza Lehmann: Sergeant Brue Complete score of the light opera from Colin Johnson in computer generated MIDI format, divided into scenes. Includes background on the work.
- Lehmann: In a Persian Garden CD Review for March 2001 MusicWeb(UK) with biographical information, her place in establishing the song cycle in England, and background on the work itself.