KOZELUCH, LEOPOLD (ANTON)

born Dec. 9, 1752, Velvary, Bohemia [now in Czech Republic] died May 7, 1818, Vienna, Austria Kozeluch also spelled Kotzeluch Czech composer of ballets, operas, and symphonies. Kozeluch studied composition in Prague with his uncle Jan Kozeluch and piano with F. Dussek and became known as a composer of ballets in the 1770s. In 1778 he went to Vienna, where he became a fashionable piano teacher. Kozeluch succeeded Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as court composer in Vienna in 1792. His compositions also include approximately 50 piano concerti, sonatas, and arrangements of Scottish songs for the Edinburgh collector George Thomson.