Josef Proksch
Illustration — Josef Proksch Josef Proksch or Joseph Proksch (4 August 1794, Reichenberg (now Liberec) – 20 December 1864, Prague) was a Bohemian-German pianist and composer. His daughter, Marie Proksch, was also a well-known pianist and composer.
Josef Proksch
HOLZKNECHT, Václav. Bedřich Smetana. Život a dílo. Praha: Panton, 1984 · Public domain
- Born
- 1794 · Liberec.
- Died
- 1864 · Prague.
- Nationality
- Austrian Empire
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · pedagogue · music educator · musician · music teacher
- Fields
- classical music
- Teachers
- Jan Antonín Koželuh · Johann Bernhard Logier
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Illustration — Josef Proksch Josef Proksch or Joseph Proksch (4 August 1794, Reichenberg (now Liberec) – 20 December 1864, Prague) was a Bohemian-German pianist and composer. His daughter, Marie Proksch, was also a well-known pianist and composer.
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Biography
Training under Jan Antonín Koželuh and Johann Bernhard Logier is recorded. Bedřich Smetana, Johann Buwa and Wilhelm Kuhe are recorded as having studied under Josef Proksch. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical music. Places of work recorded in the authority are Prague.
Proksch, who became blind at the age of 13, was a pupil of Jan Antonín Koželuh. In 1830, Proksch opened the Musikbildungsanstalt (Music Academy) in Prague. His teaching method of having several students play simultaneously during piano lessons was continued for over a hundred years. His most famous student was Bedřich Smetana, whom Proksch taught piano and music theory from 1843 to 1847.
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Selected works
Besides pedagogical works for piano, Proksch wrote a concerto for three pianos, piano sonatas, masses, and cantatas, and adapted numerous orchestral works to four to eight pianos for use in his lessons. • Versuch einer rationellen Lehrmethode im Pianoforte-Spiel – 50 volumes, pedagogical work (1841–1864) • Die Kunst des Ensembles im Pianoforte-Spiel – 7 volumes, pedagogical work (1859)
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1864
Josef Proksch died at Prague.
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