Hel’ler

Stephen, Pesth, May 15, 1813 —Paris, Jan. 14, 1888; notable composer who, like Chopin, confined his abilities to the pf. Lacking the breath, pa ion and colour of Chopin’s, his music has a candour and vivacity and a fascinating quaintne that give it peculiar charm; his études, simpler than Chopin’s, are as well imbued with art and personality. Studied piano with F. Brauer; at 9 played in pub. with succ.; then studied with Czerny and Halm; at 12, gave concerts in Vienna, and toured; at Pesth studied a little harmony with Czibulka; at Augsburg, fell ill, and was adopted by a family, aided his studies; 1838, Paris. praised his first ccmp. highly. 1849, London, he played with succ. “hough infrequently because of nervousne ; thereafter lived in Paris. C. several hundred pf.-pcs., incl. 4 sonatas and the famous Etudes. Biogr. by H. Barbadette (1876).