Background
Marie Proksch was the daughter of blind pianist Josef Proksch (1794–1864) who also taught music to Bedřich Smetana.
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Marie Proksch was the daughter of blind pianist Josef Proksch (1794–1864) who also taught music to Bedřich Smetana.
Proksch was born in Prague, where she studied music under her father.
She went on a concert tour in 1856/57, which included a several-month stay in Paris, and became known as a concert pianist. Biographical Yearbook and Deaths in German, educated Anton Bettelheim, Volume 5, Reimer, Berlin 1903.