Vilém Kurz

Vilém Kurz (23 December 1872 in Německý Brod, Bohemia – 25 May 1945 in Prague) was a Czech pianist and piano teacher, a professor at the State Conservatory in Lwów and Vienna, and Prague Conservatory. His students included his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová, Rudolf Firkusny, Eduard Steuermann, Artur Rodzinski, Břetislav Bakala, Pavel Štěpán, Stanislav Heller, František Maxián, Gidéon Klein, Rafael Schächter, Viktorie Švihlíková, Ilja Hurník, Drahomir Toman, Zdeněk Jílek and Matusja Blum. See: List of music students by teacher: K to M#Vilém Kurz.

His teaching methods were largely based on those of Theodor Leschetizky and his pupils he met during the time he taught in Lwów. Later they were further developed by his daughter Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová.

Kurz is known for his reworking of the solo part of Antonín Dvořák's Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33, which was originally composed in 1876. For more than a decade after the concerto's first performance, it suffered from neglect and critical disdain. A common remark for many years was that the piano part was written "as if for two right hands."

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