Pixis, Johann Peter (1788–1874)

German pianist and composer. He lived in Paris for several years, and acquired a reputation as a gifted pianist and piano teacher.

He studied with his father, Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (c. 1760–c. 1810), and began to appear as a pianist with his brother Friedrich Wilhelm Pixis (1786–1842), a violinist. He settled in Munich in 1809 and in Paris in 1823, where he became a noted piano teacher. In 1845, he bought a villa at Baden-Baden and continued to train pupils there. He adopted and trained the singer Franzilla Göhringer (born 1816); she created the title role in Pacini's opera Saffo in 1840.

Works Opera Almazinde (1820), Bibiana (1829), and Die Sprache des Herzens (1836).

Piano music piano concertos, sonatas, and other pieces.