Leginska Ethel. The Gargoyles of Notre Dame for piano

New York: Composers Music Co., 1920. — 13 p.Ethel Liggins was a British pianist, conductor and composer. A student of Theodor Leschetizky, she became widely known as the ‘Paderewski of woman pianists’ and established herself as one of the first female conductors.
Ethel Leginska was a talented and successful musician, unique in her talents and pioneering in the paths she pursued as a woman. Born in Hull, England, she was an admired child performer whose abilities allowed her career to blossom worldwide. Her forceful personality and prodigious abilities enabled Ethel to become much more than an acclaimed concert pianist. Settling in America, she wrote music as diverse as nursery rhymes and opera, became a renowned conductor, founded a number of trailblazing women’s orchestras and remained to her death in 1970 an inspirational teacher.
The Gargoyles of Notre Dame was inspired by Victor Hugo's 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.