Felix Horetzky (originally: Feliks Horecki) (1 January 1796 – 6 October 1870) was a Polish guitarist, teacher and composer who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom.
He came to Warsaw in 1815 to become a civil servant in the Treasury Commission, which he soon gave up to pursue a musical career.
To finance tuition and accommodation, he began to teach and counted members of the imperial court among his pupils.
[9] Together with Schulz and Ferdinand Pelzer, Horetzky was a co-editor of La Giulianiad, the world's first journal devoted exclusively to the guitar.
Button's (1984) statement, "Horetzky played, taught and composed in a similar manner to that of Giuliani, and in this respect his contributions were limited" should be refuted since Giuliani stands clearly in a Viennese classical tradition whereas the influence of the more modern Romantic style is much in evidence with Horetzky from as early as the Amusemens, Op.