Leopold Eustache Czapek
Leopold Eustache Czapek (* late 18th century in Bohemia ; † 19th century) was an Austrian composer .
Czapek, whose exact life dates are unknown, worked as a piano teacher and composer in Vienna . Piano music, chamber music and vocal works are among the more than 60 surviving works. He also wrote a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli . In 1819 he had inspired a total of 50 contemporary composers to each create a variation on their own waltz and published the series of variations in 1824 under the title Vaterländischer Künstlerverein ; Ludwig van Beethoven worked on the theme in his Diabelli Variations op.120.
literature
- Text supplement LP Telefunken 6.35434 DX (Variat. On a waltz by Diabelli, Rudolf Buchbinder , 1973)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Czapek, Leopold Eustache |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer and piano teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bohemia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th century |