Johann Baptist Cramer

Johann Baptist Cramer was an English pianist, composer and music publisher of German origin, born in the Holy Roman Empire. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer, a famous London violinist and conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Johann Baptist Cramer was a significant figure in London’s musical life, known both as a performer and a teacher. He was a piano instructor to notable musicians such as George Baker, who studied with him and Dussek in London around 1790, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Another pupil was John Beale, a pianist and professor at the Royal Academy of Music, who was also a member of the Philharmonic Society, as recorded in Brown’s Biographical Dictionary (1886). Cramer himself was a student of the celebrated Muzio Clementi, becoming his pupil in the autumn of 1783 at the age of fifteen, after having received lessons from Schroeter and F. Abel, states Biographie universelle des musiciens (1837). His influence extended into the next century, with Ludwig Berger meeting him in London after rejoining Clementi, and later, the renowned conductor Hans von Bülow attesting to Cramer’s “eminent editorial ability” through his critical editions of Cramer’s etudes, according to A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1900). Cramer’s name was also associated with the London firm Cramer & Co., of which Thomas Willert Beale was a member, as noted in Brown’s Biographical Dictionary (1886).