Mayer, Charles
Mayer, Charles
Mayer, Charles , German pianist, teacher, and composer; b. Königsberg, March 21, 1799; d. Dresden, July 2, 1862. He was taken to Russia as a child, and was taught by John Field in Moscow. He lived in Moscow until Napoleon’s invasion in 1812, then went to St. Petersburg, and in 1814 to Paris. He returned to Russia in 1819 and formed a large class of pupils in St. Petersburg. In 1845 he made a tour of Scandinavia and Germany, settling in Dresden in 1850. He pubi, an enormous number of piano pieces in salon style. One of his mazurkas was once misattributed to Chopin.
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