Education
Tomasek studied violin and singing with Wolf.
composer educationist musicologist
Tomasek studied violin and singing with Wolf.
Until 1824 he worked as a piano teacher in aristocratic families. Afterwards he created a considerable school of music Among its most well-known pupils were January Voříšek, Alexander Dreyschock and Eduard Hanslick.
He maintained correspondence with the Polish pianist and composer Maria Agata Szymanowska.
His autobiography was published in German, as well as in a Czechoslovakian translation. He lived at number 15 Tomášská Street in Prague - the building bears a memorial plaque to him in Czechoslovakian and German.