Anton Halm

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Anton Halm (1789–1872)

Karl Anton Halm (born June 5, 1789 in Haselberg in Töschlitz-Haus Altenmarkt 11 (today Kladik-Haus Altenmarkt 102), municipality of Wies in Styria (Austria); † April 6, 1872 in Vienna ) was an Austrian composer and piano teacher.

Life

Halms father was an innkeeper and "Hofstaetter". From 1808 to 1811 Halm was an officer in the Imperial and Royal Army. After working as a piano teacher in Graz , where he had also received his music training, he stayed from 1813 to 1815 mainly as a house music teacher for a noble family in Hungary. In the course of the Congress of Vienna in 1815 he went to Vienna, where he met Ludwig van Beethoven and performed his works several times. In 1826 he made a four-hand piano version of the Great Fugue op. 133 by Beethoven on behalf of the Artaria publishing house , which Beethoven disliked and eventually led him to do a piano transcription himself. Halm worked in Vienna as a composer and piano teacher until his death. His students included u. a. Julius Epstein , Stephen Heller and Adolf Henselt .

Karl Anton Halm's catalog raisonné includes piano compositions and chamber music as well as a Great Mass in E flat major. He also delivered a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli (Diabelli had a total of 50 contemporary composers inspired to each a variation on one he composed waltzes; Beethoven processed this topic in its extensive 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli , Op 120th ).

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