Wenzel Wilhelm Würfel (1790-1832)
- Grand Rondeau Brillant pour le Piano Forte, Op.30 (c.1826)
Performers: Martin Vojtísek (piano)
Further info: Würfel - Works for Piano
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Bohemian pianist and composer. He came from a musical family and was
pushed towards a career in music. His father was a schoolteacher. He
studied piano with his mother. In 1807 he went to Prague where he
studied with Václav Jan Tomášek the style of whom modelled some of his
own works. In 1815 he settled in Warsaw where he was appointed a
professor at the Warsaw Conservatory and where he soon became a
favourite artist in the salon and the concert hall. He toured as a
pianist in Poland, Bohemia, Germany and Russia. In 1824 he left Warsaw
and returned to Prague where his first opera, Rübezahl, was presented at
the Estates Theatre on 7 October. From 1826 he held a post of conductor
at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. He met Beethoven just before his
death in 1827. As a teacher, his most famous pupil is said to be the
Polish-French composer Frédéric Chopin. After a lung ailment, he died
poor and alone, in 1832.
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