Joseph Czerny

Joseph Czerny ( born June 14, 1785 Horwitz (Bohemia ); † September 22, 1831 ( according to other data January 7, 1842 ) in Vienna ) was an Austrian piano teacher, publisher and composer.

Joseph Czerny taught as a respected piano teacher in Vienna. Among his most famous pupils was the composer and pianist Leopoldine Blahetka. As successor to Carl Czerny ( with this not closely related ), he also taught Beethoven's nephew Karl. In 1824 he entered the music publishing Cappi & a Co. and led this 1828 to 1831.

Czerny wrote, among other piano compositions also a variation on a waltz by Anton Diabelli. This was in 1819 stimulated a total of 50 composers, each a variation of its own waltz and the sequence of variations published in 1824 ( Ludwig van Beethoven processed this theme in his Diabelli Variations Op 120).