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Alix Lamande, music teacher, resident of 115 Hotham Street - 1913

Acquisition number
722
Catalogue number
emdf0001-p2
File name
DF1
File location
Digital archive

Photograph taken in 1913 of Alix Lamandé with her hand resting on a piano stool. Alix was a music teacher residing with her father, Ambrose Lamandé at Amorique, 115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne. Ambrose lived there from 1906 until 1919.

The Argus of 11 October 1913 reported on a recital she had given the previous night at the Athanaeum, coinciding with the date of the photograph: " ... Miss Alix Lamande, who has done much creditable work as a pianist in students' displays, came forward in a more serious way at a recital in the Athanaeum hall last night .... In general Miss Lamande made an agreeable impression with an ambitious programme, which comprised, inter alia, Beethoven's C sharp minor Sonata, and Schubert's B flat variations.... These apart (a couple of technical failings the journalist identified) however, she is a player of decided promise ...."

Alix went to France in 1919, and is believed to have never returned to Australia.

Item type
Photograph
Building name
Amorique
Subject address
115 Hotham Street, East Melbourne
Item size
10x20 cm including frame
Item condition
Good
Faded
Item inscription

With many thanks for encouragements
Alix Lamandé
10th October 1913

Photographer
T. Humphrey & Co, , 264 Collins Street, Melbourne
Date of publication or creation
1913

History of item

In the family collection of Steven Lamandé.

Owner of original
Steven Lamandé
Permission reference
Email 2009-09-09
Year acquired
2009
Donor
Steven Lamandé
Date digitised
2009-09-13

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