His Musikbildungsanstalt (Music Academy) in Prague operated from 1830.
[2] His teaching method of having several students play simultaneously during piano lessons was continued for over a hundred years. His most famous student was Bedřich Smetana, Thesis on Proksch's methodJosef Proksch and his methodology of teaching piano (in the light of his six books of Practical School of Piano Playing) by Martina Šimsová