Ignaz Amadeus Tedesco (3 February 1815, Prague - 13 November 1882, Odesa) was a pianist and music teacher born of Czech Jews.
Biography.
He studied in Prague with Josef Tribenze and Vaclav Tomashek, and began teaching there himself (among his Prague students, in particular, Julius Schulhof). A virtuoso pianist, in the second half of the 1830s he gave many concerts in Germany, earning the nickname "Hannibal of the octaves"[5]. In 1840, he settled in Odesa, giving piano lessons, and spent almost all his life here, touring widely in the southern part of the Russian Empire, in particular, most of all in the territory of modern Ukraine, but also in St. Petersburg (1847), Hamburg (1848), London (1856), etc.
Ignacy Tedesco composed more than 70 works for piano, including a concerto, nocturnes, mazurkas and other salon pieces, as well as transcriptions of opera arias and piano arrangements of folk songs, which make up more than two-thirds of his legacy. Among Tedesco's many students in Odesa was Borys Pasternak's mother, the pianist Rosa Kaufman.
