Felix Draeseke studied under Ignaz Moscheles during his time at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1852 and 1855. Moscheles, a renowned Bohemian-born piano virtuoso and influential pedagogue, was one of Draeseke’s teachers in piano performance, alongside Louis Plaidy. Their connection took place in Leipzig, where Moscheles served as a professor of piano.
This student–teacher relationship exposed Draeseke to Moscheles’s distinguished pianistic tradition and his classical orientation, which contrasted with the more progressive musical styles Draeseke later embraced. Although the article does not describe personal interactions between them, Moscheles’s reputation as one of the leading keyboard pedagogues of the era suggests that Draeseke received rigorous technical and interpretive training during this formative period.
