Walter Legge
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Walter Legge (June 1, 1906 - March 22, 1979) was an influential British classical record producer, most notably for EMI.
Legge first joined HMV in 1927 mainly to work for the editorial of the company's retailing magazine, but he caught the eye of another famous record producer, Fred Gaisberg, and was soon taking an active role in their recording procedures. Between 1933 and 1938 Legge also worked as a music critic for Manchester Guardian.
During his years at EMI Legge contracted and recorded many artists, including Arturo Toscanini, Herbert von Karajan, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (to whom he was married since 1953), Maria Callas, Thomas Beecham, Otto Klemperer, Dinu Lipatti and many others. Legge finally left EMI in 1964, thanks to ill health and growing dissent with the management.
He also founded the Philharmonia as well as the Sibelius Society of London.ja:ウォルター・レッグ nl:Walter Legge