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<p><b>Jacques Leiser</b> is an international artist manager<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and photographer who has represented and collaborated with many of the world's greatest concert pianists, composers, violinists and singers.

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<p>Very early in his life, Leiser became fascinated with photography, and for most of his career, he has never been far from his camera. Today his photo archives are a vast treasure trove of images of famous musicians and artists including <a href="Dmitri_Shostakovich" title="Dmitri Shostakovich">Dmitri Shostakovich</a>, <a href="Aram_Khachaturian" title="Aram Khachaturian">Aram Khachaturian</a>, <a href="Krysztof_Penderecki" class="mw-redirect" title="Krysztof Penderecki">Krysztof Penderecki</a>, <a href="Heitor_Villa-Lobos" title="Heitor Villa-Lobos">Heitor Villa-Lobos</a>, <a href="Maria_Callas" title="Maria Callas">Maria Callas</a>, <a href="Sviatoslav_Richter" title="Sviatoslav Richter">Sviatoslav Richter</a>, <a href="Maurizio_Pollini" title="Maurizio Pollini">Maurizio Pollini</a>, <a href="Krystian_Zimerman" title="Krystian Zimerman">Krystian Zimerman</a>, <a href="Lazar_Berman" title="Lazar Berman">Lazar Berman</a>, <a href="Vladimir_Ashkenazy" title="Vladimir Ashkenazy">Vladimir Ashkenazy</a>, <a href="Artur_Rubinstein" class="mw-redirect" title="Artur Rubinstein">Artur Rubinstein</a>, <a href="Julius_Katchen" title="Julius Katchen">Julius Katchen</a>, <a href="Alfred_Cortot" title="Alfred Cortot">Alfred Cortot</a>, <a href="Edwin_Fischer" title="Edwin Fischer">Edwin Fischer</a>, <a href="Annie_Fischer" title="Annie Fischer">Annie Fischer</a>, <a href="Clara_Haskil" title="Clara Haskil">Clara Haskil</a>, <a href="Heinrich_Neuhaus" title="Heinrich Neuhaus">Heinrich Neuhaus</a>, <a href="David_Oistrakh" title="David Oistrakh">David Oistrakh</a>, <a href="Mstislav_Rostropovich" title="Mstislav Rostropovich">Mstislav Rostropovich</a>, <a href="Otto_Klemperer" title="Otto Klemperer">Otto Klemperer</a>, <a href="Claudio_Abbado" title="Claudio Abbado">Claudio Abbado</a>, as well as <a href="Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso">Pablo Picasso</a>, <a href="Serge_Poliakoff" title="Serge Poliakoff">Serge Poliakoff</a>, <a href="Tennessee_Williams" title="Tennessee Williams">Tennessee Williams</a>, <a href="Elisabeth_of_Bavaria_(1876-1965)" class="mw-redirect" title="Elisabeth of Bavaria (1876-1965)">Queen Elisabeth of Belgium</a> and Premier <a href="Nikita_Khrushchev" title="Nikita Khrushchev">Nikita Khrushchev</a>.

</p><p>Leiser first met and photographed <a href="Sviatoslav_Richter" title="Sviatoslav Richter">Sviatoslav Richter</a> while Leiser was working with the Artists Department of <a href="EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a> records. At EMI Leiser had created the milestone series of the "Great Recordings of the Century". Determined to sign up Richter for EMI, Leiser sought out the Russian pianist during his first visit to the West (<a href="Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a> in 1960). What followed this initial contact was a 37-year professional association and friendship one that included the creation of a remarkable photographic essay on one of the giants of the piano.

</p><p>Early in 1998, some of Leiser's photographs of Sviatoslav Richter were featured at the <a href="Louvre" title="Louvre">Louvre</a> Museum as part of its Film Festival of Great Pianists of the 20th Century. Subsequent exhibits were held at <a href="Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>, the <a href="San_Diego" title="San Diego">San Diego</a> Museum of Art, at Portland State University in 1999, at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara in 2001 and at <a href="University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">USC</a> in <a href="Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a> in 2002. A major exhibit, consisting of about 70 photographic portraits was displayed at the Music Conservatory in <a href="Z%C3%BCrich" class="mw-redirect" title="Zürich">Zürich</a> in October 2005. Future exhibits are planned in 2006 at prominent Swiss Music Festivals and at the Geneva Conservatory of Music.

</p><p>Leiser is currently preparing a book of his recollections of music celebrities with whom he has been associated and will include numerous photographs.

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</style><cite class="citation book cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=n9UaAQAAMAAJ"><i>Musical America: Directory of the performing arts</i></a>. Billboard Publications. 1972. p. 89.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jacquesleiser.ch">Official Website</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110706234331/http://www.jacquesleiser.ch/">Archived</a> 2011-07-06 at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzYcfHu_xtQ">David Dubal interview with Jacques Leiser</a>, WNCN-FM, 5-Feb-1982</li></ul>

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