Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (also seen as Josef Casimir Hofmann) (20 January 1876 – 16 February 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist composer music teacher and inventor.
Józef Hofmann was born in Podgórze, near Krakau (Kraków), Austria-Hungary (now Poland) in 1876. His father was the composer, conductor, and pianist Kazimierz Hofmann, and his mother was the singer Matylda Pindelska. A child prodigy, he gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the ag...
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Józef Kazimierz Hofmann (also seen as Josef Casimir Hofmann) (20 January 1876 – 16 February 1957) was a Polish-American virtuoso pianist composer music teacher and inventor.
Józef Hofmann was born in Podgórze, near Krakau (Kraków), Austria-Hungary (now Poland) in 1876. His father was the composer, conductor, and pianist Kazimierz Hofmann, and his mother was the singer Matylda Pindelska. A child prodigy, he gave a debut recital in Warsaw at the age of 5. He gave a long series of well received concerts throughout Europe and Scandinavia, culminating in a series of concerts in America in 1887-88. Anton Rubinstein took Hofmann as his only private student in 1892 and arranged the debut of adult Hofmann in Hamburg, Germany in 1894. Hofmann toured and performed extensively over the next 50 years as one of the most celebrated pianist of this era .
As a composer, Hofmann published over one hundred works, many of those under the pseudonym Michel Dvorsky. He made the United States his base during...
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