Josef Labor
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Josef Paul Labor was an Austrian pianist, organist, and composer of the late Romantic era. Labor was an influential music teacher. As a friend of some key figures in Vienna, his importance was enhance
Labor (c. 1875)
Carl Czerny
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Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer, music educator, and pianist of Czech origin. His music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand
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…of Friends of Music) where he studied composition with Simon Sechter (teacher of Bruckner), and piano with Eduard Pirkhert (student of Anton Halm and Czerny). He toured Europe as a pianist and, in the process, formed lasting friendships with King George V of Hanover, who was also blind, and with Joseph…
Czerny in 1833, engraved by Josef Kriehuber
Czerny introduces his pupil Franz Liszt to Beethoven. Drawing by Rudolf Lipus (1893–1961).
150th anniversary (1857–2007) of Czerny's death, Central Cemetery, Vienna
"Czerny, the forefather of Pianoforte Technic", illustration from The Etude magazine, April 1927