Karol Mikuli (Armenian: Կարոլ Միկըլի or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; (20 October 1819 — 21 May 1897) (often seen as Carl Mikuli) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher of Armenian ancestry.
Mikuli (aka Bsdikian) was born in Czerniowce, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He studied under Frédéric Chopin for piano (later becoming his teaching assistant) and Anton Reicha for composition. He toured widely as a concert piani...
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Karol Mikuli (Armenian: Կարոլ Միկըլի or Կարոլ Պստիկյան; (20 October 1819 — 21 May 1897) (often seen as Carl Mikuli) was a Polish pianist, composer, conductor and teacher of Armenian ancestry.
Mikuli (aka Bsdikian) was born in Czerniowce, then part of the Austrian Empire (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He studied under Frédéric Chopin for piano (later becoming his teaching assistant) and Anton Reicha for composition. He toured widely as a concert pianist, becoming Director of the Lwow Conservatory in 1858. He founded his own school there in 1888.
His students included Moriz Rosenthal, Raoul Koczalski, Aleksander Michałowski, Jaroslaw Zieliński and Kornelia Parnas. He died in Lemberg, then part of Austria-Hungary (now Lviv, Ukraine) and is buried in the courtyard of the Armenian church in Lviv.
He is most well known as an editor of works by Chopin. Dover Publications currently publishes reprints of his 1879 editions of Chopin's piano music, originally published by F. Kistner (Leipzig). His...
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