František Rauch

František Rauch (4 February 1910 – 23 September 1996) was a Czechoslovak pianist and music teacher.

Before he began his career as a pianist, he worked for several months in the piano factory of August Förster.

His repertoire focused on compositions by Beethoven, Smetana, Liszt, Schumann and Vítězslav Novák.

He taught at the Prague Conservatory from 1939 for more than forty years and was the teacher of musicians such as Petr Eben, Valentina Kameníková, Ivan Klánský and the harpsichordist Zuzana Růžičková.

[1][2] In 1975 he acted as a jury member for the first Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.