Theodor Coccius, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German music educator
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Place of Birth: Landkreis Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
About Theodor Coccius
- Theodor Coccius (8 March 1824 – 24 October 1897) was a German pianist and pedagogue. Coccius was born in Knauthain near Leipzig in 1824.
- He was a pupil of Sigismond Thalberg. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1864 for the rest of his life, alongside Ignaz Moscheles and Carl Reinecke.
- His notable pupils included Oskar Merikanto, Aleksander Michalowski (1867–69), and Algernon Ashton.He was the elder brother of the ophthalmologist Ernst Adolf Coccius (1825-1890). He died in Leipzig in 1897, aged 73.
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