A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Schulz, Edouard

SCHULZ, Edouard, pianist, born Feb. 18, 1812; died Sept. 15, 1876. His father—a Hungarian—settled in Vienna, where Edouard as a child had once the privilege of playing to Beethoven. He came with his father and younger brother Leonard, both guitar players, to London in 1826, and the trio gave their first concert at Kirkman's rooms, April 24 of that year; Edouard playing the physharmonica. In 1828 they appeared in a Philharmonic Concert. Edouard's fine pianoforte playing attracted the notice of George IV. and the Duke of Devonshire, and he became the favourite teacher of the English aristocracy, to whom his distinguished manners endeared him. He might have been one of the very first pianists had he not overfatigued his hands by too zealous practice of the then new technique of extensions. As a teacher he amassed a fortune, £1000 of which he bequeathed to the Royal Society of Musicians, the third legacy of like amount left by foreign musicians settled in London.

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