Lehmann, Liza (Elizabetta Nina Mary Frederika) (1862–1918)

English singer and composer. In 1885 she made her first appearance as a singer at St James's Hall, London, where she sang for the last time in 1894, when she married Herbert Bedford.

She was taught at first by her mother, Amelia Chambers, herself an accomplished amateur composer. She later studied in Rome, Italy, Wiesbaden, Germany, and at home with Hamish MacCunn, also singing with Alberto Randegger. The composer David Bedford is her grandson.

Works Stage light opera The Vicar of Wakefield (after Goldsmith, 1906); musical comedy Sergeant Brue (L Housman); incidental music for Everyman and other plays.

Vocal ballads for voice and orchestra; song cycles In a Persian Garden (Omar Khayyám) and In Memoriam (Tennyson).