Amelia Lehmann

Amelia Lehmann (née Chambers) (3 February 1838[1] – 1 April 1903[2])[3] was a British composer and arranger of art songs and popular ballads, many of which she published under the pseudonym "A. L.".

She was also considered a gifted singer and was the first singing teacher of her daughter Liza Lehmann.

[6] Lehmann was the daughter of Anne (née Kirkwood) and Robert Chambers, the Scottish writer and publisher.

[8] Their daughter Liza wrote in her memoirs: My mother certainly had extraordinary gifts, but suffered all her life from quite abnormally developed diffidence.

She wrote some beautiful music, notably an operatic setting of a Goethe libretto; but the same diffidence and exaggerated, almost morbid self-criticism, led her to destroy most of her compositions, including with them many of her best.