Johann Horzalka
Johann Evangelist Horzalka (* 1798 in Triesch , Moravia, † September 9, 1860 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pianist and composer .
Johann Horzalka was the son of a school teacher and organist. After taking piano and composition lessons with Ignaz Moscheles and Emanuel Aloys Förster , he settled in Vienna as a pianist. From 1832 he worked as a pianist and répétiteur at the Theater an der Wien .
Horzalka wrote, among other piano compositions, a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli . In 1819 he had suggested a total of 50 composers to each perform a variation on their own waltz and published the series of variations in 1824 under the title Vaterländischer Künstlerverein ; Ludwig van Beethoven processed this theme in his Diabelli Variations op.120.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Horzalka, Johann Evangelist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 335 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Text supplement LP Telefunken 6.35434 DX (Variat. On a waltz by Diabelli, Rudolf Buchbinder , 1973)
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| SURNAME | Horzalka, Johann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hořzalka, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian pianist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1798 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Triesch (Moravia) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1860 |
| Place of death | Vienna |