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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1726-03-14
- Active to
- 1797-04-12
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Discography
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- 190
- Total plays
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Classical18th centuryclassical periodorchestralaustrian classical
Josef Antonín Štěpán or Joseph Anton Steffan (c. March 1726 – c. April 1797) was a Bohemian-Austrian classical era composer and harpsichordist. Steffan was born in Kopidlno, near Hradec Králové, Bohemia in March 1726, the son of a schoolmaster and church organist. In 1741 he fled from the Prussian army to Vienna. He received his first musical lessons from his father but, in Vienna, he studied with Schilck and later became a student of Georg Christoph Wagenseil. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Joseph
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Kopidlno
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- harpsichordist
- Student of
- Georg Christoph Wagenseil
- Genre
- classical music
- Instrument
- piano
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- medical condition
- blindness
- date of birth
- 1726-03-14
- date of death
- 1797-04-12
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Joseph Anton Steffan, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
