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He took especial delight in playing Chopin's Nocturnes, no Sunday ever passed without his family hearing him play two or three of them. He studied music in London under Moscheles, and, though not an eminent pianist, was a good teacher. His amiability assured him a warm welcome in society. Eduard Pirkhert died at Vienna, aged 63, on February 28, 1881. To Mr.
Ernst Pauer, who is never appealed to in vain, I am indebted for the following data as well as for the subject matter of my notice on Werner: "Eduard Pirkhert, born at Graz in 1817, was a pupil of Anton Halm and Carl Czerny. He was a shy and enormously diligent artist, who, however, on account of his nervousness, played, like Henselt, rarely in public.
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