Background
Dubez was born and died in Vienna, Austria, of Italian extraction.
(Outstanding late Romantic work from Johann Dubez a pupil ...)
Outstanding late Romantic work from Johann Dubez a pupil of Mertz and probably Regondi. The edition has a lengthy introductiion in German and English, as well a commentary by the editor Michael Sieberichs-Nau.
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Dubez was born and died in Vienna, Austria, of Italian extraction.
Dubez, who frequently heard Regondi perform when the latter appeared in Vienna, was so fascinated that he adopted the guitar, too, and studied it under Regondi and Johann Kaspar Mertz in this city.
His progress was very rapid for in 1847 he gave his first guitar concert in the old Vienna Academy of, playing Regondi"s compositions and meeting with enormous success. Dubez was a brilliant harpist, too, and under Giacomo Meyerbeer"s baton he played the well-known harp solo in the opera Vielka. Some few years previous to his death he undertook a protracted concert tour, visiting Bucharest and Constantinople.
In the former city he was commanded to perform before the Queen of Romania, and in the latter before the Sultan and Court, receiving the decoration of the Medjidia Order.
(Outstanding late Romantic work from Johann Dubez a pupil ...)
(For solo guitar.)
Dubez was elected the first president of the Vienna Zither Society, founded in 1875, and also created honorary member of the Prague Zither Society.