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Leslie Howard Steiner, better known as Leslie Howard, was an English actor, director, producer, and writer. He wrote many stories and articles for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair and was one of the biggest box-office draws and movie idols of the 1930s.
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Born 3 April 1893 · Died 1 June 1943 · Q156178
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Released album “Faust Symphony, Dante Symphony, Beethoven Symphony No.9”.
Released album “Glazunov: Piano Music”.
Released album “New Discoveries, Volume 4”.
Released album “Twelve Symphonic Poems”.
Released album “Belle Epoque – Complete Works for Two Pianos & Piano Duet”.
Released album “Études in Black and White”.
Released album “Piano Works”.
Released album “Piano Quartets”.
Released album “The Malcolm Smith Memorial Album”.
Released album “The Complete Liszt Piano Music”.
Released album “New Liszt Discoveries 3”.
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Released album “New Liszt Discoveries 2”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 57: Hungarian Rhapsodies”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 54: Liszt at the Opera VI”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 53b: Music for Piano and Orchestra 2”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 51: Paralipomènes”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 50: Liszt at the Opera V”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 49: Schubert and Weber Transcriptions”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 48: Complete Paganini Études”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 46: Meditations”.
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Released album “Piano Sonatas”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 43: Deuxième année de pèlerinage – Italie / Venezia e Napoli”.
Released album “Beethoven: Notturno, op. 42 / Mendelssohn: Viola Sonata in C minor / Schumann: Märchenbilder, op. 113”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 42: Liszt at the Opera IV”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 41: The Recitations with Piano”.
Released album “Complete Piano Sonatas”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 40: Gaudeamus Igitur / Pièces d'occasion”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 39: Première année de pèlerinage - Suisse / Trois morceaux suisses”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 37: Tanzmomente”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 38: Les Préludes / Concert Études / Episodes from Lenau's "Faust"”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 35: Arabesques: Russian and Hungarian Transcriptions”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 34: Douze Grandes Études”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 33: The Schubert Transcriptions III”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 32: The Schubert Transcriptions II”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 31: The Schubert Transcriptions I”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 30: Liszt at the Opera III”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 29: Magyar dalok & Magyar rapszódiák”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 28: Dances and Marches”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 27: Fantasies, Paraphrases and Transcriptions of National Songs and Anthems”.
Released album “English Music for Viola”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 26: The Young Liszt”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 25: The Canticle of the Sun”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 24: Beethoven and Hummel Septets”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 23: Harold in Italy”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 22: The Complete Symphonies”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 21: Soirées musicales & Soirées italiennes”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 20: Album d'un voyageur”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 19: Liebesträume and Other Song Transcriptions”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 18: Liszt at the Theatre”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 17: Liszt at the Opera II”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 16: Bunte Reihe”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 15: Song Transcriptions”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 14: Pieces from Christus and St. Elisabeth / Polonaises de St. Stanislaus / Salve Polonia”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 13: À la chapelle Sixtine / Six Preludes and Fugues / Fantasie and Fugue in G minor”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 12: Années de pèlerinage III / Historical Hungarian Portraits / Five Hungarian Folksongs”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 11: The Late Pieces”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 10: Hexaméron / Symphonie fantastique”.
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Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 7: Harmonies poétiques et religieuses”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 6: Liszt at the Opera I”.
Released album “Piano Sonatas nos. 1 & 3”.
Released album “Piano Sonatas nos. 2 & 4”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 5: Saint-Saëns, Chopin & Berlioz Transcriptions”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 4: Transcendental Studies”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 3: Fantasy / Variations / Funeral Odes / Concert Solo”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 2: Ballades, Legends and Polonaises”.
Released album “The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Volume 1: Liszt Waltzes”.
Released album “The Virtuoso Mandolin”.
For the BBC's British Greats series), much historical footage and an additional interview
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Was briefed by the National Security Agency on the need for secrecy and Leslie Howard's death had been brought up
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And remained its headmistress until the 1970s
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After his death, British exhibitors voted him the second-most popular local star at the box office
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Died 1943-06-01.
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When the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic (off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña), on which he was a passenger
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She died of pneumonia in her early thirties in 1942, just six months before Howard's death.
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Leslie appeared with his father and David Niven in the film The First of the Few (1942), playing the role of nurse to Niven's character, and was a major contributor in the filmed biography of his father, Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn.
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Just six months before Howard's death
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As war approached, he played opposite Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo; that August, Howard was determined to return to the country of his birth
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She was secretary to Gabriel Pascal, who was producing the film; she became Howard's secretary and lover, and they travelled to the U.S, and lived together while he was filming Gone with the Wind and Intermezzo (both 1939).
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Won Volpi Cup for Best Actor for Pygmalion (1938).
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Howard suggested to his friend Adrian Brunel that they form a film production company
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But had his greatest theatrical success in the United States in Broadway theatre, in plays such as Aren't We All
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Born 1893-04-03.
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