| Biography | His Leygraf (7 September 1920, Stockholm, Sweden - 12 February 2011, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish pianist, piano teacher, conductor and composer.
Leygraf studied piano with Geoffrey Boon in Stockholm and Anna Hirzel-Langenhan in Switzerland. He was one of Sweden's most internationally renowned musicians as well as a famous teacher. He taught permanently at Edsbergs Music Institute of Stockholm, in Darmstadt , Hannover , Berlin and Salzburg. In Salzburg, he was professor of piano at the Musikhochschule Mozarteum between 1972 and 1990, but continued until 2007, which provide lessons for especially talented students. He gave concerts until 2010 and was probably best known for his interpretations of Mozart and Schubert.
As a composer he was a member of the Monday Group, but he stopped composing in the 1940s. |