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Anton DoorАнтон ДоорAustrian pianist, born in Vienna on 20 June 1833. Door was a student of Karl Czerny, and began his concert career in 1850, touring Italy and Germany. In Stockholm he was appointed pianist to the Swedish royal court, before becoming professor of piano studies at the Moscow Conservatory from 1866 to 1869, where he taught alongside Tchaikovsky. In 1869 he returned to his homeland as a professor at the Vienna Conservatory, where he remained until 1901. Tchaikovsky dedicated his Valse-caprice, Op. 4 (1868), to Anton Door, who died in Vienna on 7 November 1919, aged 86. |