Ivan Pratsch

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Iwan Pratsch ( Johann Gottfried Pratsch , Jan Bogumir Práč ) (* around 1750, † 1818 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Bohemian composer .

Pratsch lived in Saint Petersburg from around 1770, where he worked as a piano teacher at the Smolny Institute and the Court Theater Music School. With Nikolai Lwow he published the collection of Russian folk songs with their melodies in 1790 . Motives from it were u. a. used by Ludwig van Beethoven , Modest Mussorgski , Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow and Gioachino Rossini .

He also composed a fandango for violin and piano as well as numerous piano works, including a funeral march for the death of General Kutuzov .

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