Marie Proksch (1836 – 17 May 1900) was a

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n pianist, music educator and composer.

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Marie Proksch was the daughter of blind pianist

Josef Proksch Josef Proksch or Joseph Proksch (4 August 1794, Liberec, Reichenberg (now Liberec) – 20 December 1864, Prague) was a Bohemian-Germans, German pianist and composer. His daughter, Marie Proksch, was also a well-known pianist and composer. Biograph ...

(1794–1864) who also taught music to

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. Proksch was born in

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, where she studied music under her father. She went on a concert tour in 1856/57, which included a several-month stay in Paris, and became known as a concert pianist. After the death of her father in 1864, she took control with her brother Theodore Proksch of her father's Musikbildungsanstalt Institute (a music school founded in 1830) in Prague. After her brother died in 1876, she began composing pieces for piano.

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