Charles Wels
American composer
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| Intro | American composer | |
| Places | United States of America | |
| was | Musician Composer Pianist | |
| Work field | Music | |
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| Birth | 24 August 1825, Prague | |
| Death | 9 May 1906The Bronx (aged 80 years) | |
| Star sign | Virgo |
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Charles Wels (August 24, 1825 in Prague – May 12, 1906 in New York City) was a Bohemian-American pianist, organist, composer, and music teacher. He studied under Václav Tomášek before relocating to the US. In the US he did piano compositions and a funeral march for Abraham Lincoln. (The Library of Congress has scanned in 60 compositions by Wels into its American Memory collection.)
He was briefly a Polish court-musician from 1847 to 1849. In the 1860s he was organist at Christ Church of New York.
His pupils included Samuel Brenton Whitney.