Václav Tomášek

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Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, in German Johann Wenzel Tomaschek (April 17, 1774, Skuteč – April 3, 1850, Prague) was a Czech composer and music teacher.

As a pianist, he was an autodidact, becoming one of the most important piano teachers of Prague for a century. In 1820, he created a considerable school of music; among its most well-known pupils were Vorisek and Alexander Dreyschock. Tomasek made acquaintances with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, whose poems he set. Tomášek exclusively wrote for the piano and became a forerunner of the lyric piece of piano, which later found its completion in Franz Schubert.