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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 66. Chapters: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Artur Schnabel, Franz Schmidt, Paul Wittgenstein, Alfred Brendel, Carl Czerny, Sigismond Thalberg, Friedrich Wuhrer, Kurt Adler, Maria Anna Mozart, Ignaz Pleyel, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Marcel Tyberg, Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein, Felix Weingartner, Walter Bricht, Elfi von Dassanowsky, Mathilde Kralik, Markus Schirmer, Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, Rudolf Serkin, Joseph Christoph Kessler, Ernst Pauer, Ignaz Brull, Friedrich Gulda, Karol Mikuli, Till Fellner, Karl Ulrich Schnabel, Lubka Kolessa, Joseph Schalk, Rawicz and Landauer, Thomas Larcher, Robert Fischhof, Alfred Jaell, Louis Kentner, Henri Herz, Franz Clement, Anton Eberl, Alexander Joel, Carl Fruhling, Carl Filtsch, Luna Alcalay, Eduard Steuermann, Maximilian Stadler, Walter Klien, Wilhelm Grosz, Jorg Demus, Rudolf Buchbinder, Paul Badura-Skoda, Julius Schulhoff, Adolph Baller, Alfred Grunfeld, Hans Sittner, Ingolf Wunder, Barbara Ployer, Julius Epstein, Marion Stein, Paul Weingarten, Rico Gulda, Ingrid Haebler, Max Vogrich, Ernst Bachrich, Stefan Vladar, Hugo Reinhold, Ferdinand Rebay, Josef Dachs, Hans Kann. Excerpt: Sigismond Thalberg (January 8, 1812 - April 27, 1871) was a composer and one of the most distinguished virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. Sigismond Thalberg was born in Paquis near Geneva, Switzerland, on January 8, 1812. According to his birth certificate, he was the son of "Joseph Thalberg" and "Fortunee Stein," both from Frankfurt-am-Main, but the names in the birth certificate are now regarded as fictitious. For reasons of Thalberg's illegitimate birth, during his lifetime it was common use not to call his parents true names. Francois-Joseph Fetis, in the article "Thalberg" in his Biographie universelle des musiciens (1863), therefore wrote that Thalberg was son of a Prince M.. D.." and a Baroness W....