Stanislav Heller

Heller was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia on 15 September 1924,^[1] to Stanislav Heller Sr., who was a lawyer in Brno, and Marie Hellerová.^[2] He studied piano with Vilém Kurz and organ with Bedřich Antonín Wiedermann^{[citation needed]} at the Prague Conservatory.^[3] His family emigrated to Argentina after World War II. Stanislav Heller also spent a lot of time in South America and learned to speak Spanish fluently.^[1]

In 1947, he moved to London and later obtained British citizenship.^[3] He started a career as a concert harpsichordist there (one of the first concert harpsichordists in the 20th century) and also toured with Rafael Kubelík.^{[citation needed]}

In the second half of the 1970s, Heller moved to Freiburg and worked as teacher of harpsichord at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.^[1] After the Velvet Revolution in 1989, he returned to Czechoslovakia and taught at the Janáček Academy of Performing Arts.^[4] He died on 23 January 2000 in Jihlava.^[3][5]