Wilhelm Kuhe

Wilhelm Kuhe (10 December 1823 – 8 October 1912) was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, composer and administrator born in the city of Prague (modern-day Czech Republic), in the first half of the nineteenth century. Life He exhibited a precocious taste for music, and at the age of four picked out Paganini’s melodies on the pianoforte from memory. He was taught music by Václav Tomášek, having Julius Schulhoff as a fellow student. He lived in Upper Austria in 1843–44, studying music and preparing for a concert tour with great success in 1844 at Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Augsburg, Munich, and then at Stuttgart. He published his memoirs, My Musical Recollections, in 1896; the book preserves a number of anecdotes about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that Kuhe learned from Wenzel Swoboda, an elderly Prague double bass player who had performed under Mozart’s direction. List of works Fantasias *Fantasie on Sir Arthur Sullivan’s opera The Chieftain *Fantasie brilliante on motifs from Bizet’s Carmem *Fantasie on motifs from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino *Fantasie on Verdi’s opera La Traviata *Grande fantasie de concert on Flotow’s Martha *Fantasia on Austrian Anthem *Victoria Fantasia on National A