Gelinek beethoven biography

​GELINEK, Joseph, secular priest, composer of variations for pianoforte, born Dec.

3, 1758, at Selcz in Bohemia, where his father was schoolmaster. He was well-grounded in music at home, and on going to Prague to complete his philosophical studies took lessons from Segert in composition and organ-playing.

In 1783 he became a divinity student at the General-Seminar, the orchestra of which at that time executed standard works so well as to elicit praise from Mozart himself when in Prague.

Joseph Gelinek, Czech abbé and pianist, had moved about two years earlier to Vienna than Beethoven.

Josef Gelinek Biography by Keith Johnson.

Joseph Gelinek (3 December – 13 April ) was a Czech-born composer and pianist, living in Vienna for most of his career.

​GELINEK, Joseph, secular priest, composer of variations for pianoforte, born Dec. 3, , at Selcz in Bohemia, where his father was.

Many historians have documented Gelinek stating that Beethoven was "in league with the Devil" or simply "not human"; but the reality is that in.

Mozart also applauded Gelinek's pianoforte playing, and encouraged him to persevere. In 1786 he was ordained priest, and became domestic chaplain and pianoforte teacher to Prince Joseph Kinsky, who settled an income upon him for life, and took him to Vienna, where he studied with Albrechtsberger.

He then accompanied Prince Poniatowsky to Rome, with the view to obtain further instruction, but illness obliged him to return to Vienna. There he