On October 29 at 4:00 PM, a lecture by Professor Steven Thompson Moore titled “Out of Prague: Jewish Emancipation and the Rise of the Jewish Piano Virtuoso” will be held at the Conservatory’s History Museum
See the lecture abstract below – Out of Prague:
Jewish Emancipation and the Rise of the Jewish Piano Virtuoso Jewish parents in Prague saw from the success of Ignaz Moscheles that music could be a realistic career choice; at least one son could be educated in music from an early age, and aspire to a life in music. Professor Moore’s recent research sheds light on the remarkable harvest of piano virtuosos from Bohemia during the period 1815-1840 – Sigmund Goldschmidt, Ignaz Tedesco, Alexander Dreyschock , Wilhelm Kuhe, Julius Schulhoff, Charles Wehle, Bernard Rie, Leopold Lion, – virtually all unknown either to modern scholars or to the modern piano repertoire.
About the lecturer
Stephen Thomson Moore holds degrees in musicology from Harvard and Stanford. His articles on music have been published in English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, and Hungarian, in journals in the United States, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Italy, Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, and Hungary. His recent book on twentieth-century music from Czechia and elsewhere was published in May 2025 by Edições Colibri in Lisbon, Portugal. He is head of the Sound and Image Department at the Green Library, Florida International University, in Miami, Florida.