Ignaz Moscheles
Ignaz Moscheles · Arts & Literature
Pianist and composer
1794, Prague, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) — 1870, Leipzig, Germany
Bohemia · United Kingdom · Germany
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Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian-born pianist and composer, one of the leading virtuosos of his era, a friend and mentor of Mendelssohn and a founding professor at the Leipzig Conservatory. He was born into a German-speaking Jewish family in Prague; he later converted to Lutheranism as an adult.
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Pianist and composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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