Stephen Heller

The characteristics of Heller's music were clearly a transition from German Romanticism to French Impressionism. He was born in Pest and lived most of his youth in the Hungarian capital but then went to Vienna to study with Czerny. He could not afford the expense and studied with Halm instead. Through his teacher he met Beethoven and Schubert and by 1828 Heller had made his debut and went on an ...more