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{{for|the Austrian rabbi|Joseph Samuel Bloch}}
'''Joseph Meyer Bloch''' (pronounced "block", November 6, 1917 – March 4, 2009) was an [[Americans|American]] concert [[pianist]] and professor of piano literature at the [[Juilliard School]] in [[New York City]]. During a career at Juilliard that spanned five decades, Bloch's students included [[Emanuel Ax]], [[Van Cliburn]], [[Misha Dichter]], [[Garrick Ohlsson]], [[Jeffrey Siegel]], [[Şahan Arzruni]], and [[Jeffrey Swann]]. During his time at the school, with the exception of an attempted retirement in the 1980s, Bloch taught every piano student at Juilliard. While other Juilliard piano instructors taught prowess at the keyboard, Bloch focused on what ''[[The New York Times]]'' described as "the who, the why and the what-if" of the piano, not "the how-to".<ref name=NYTObit/> For one year, 1995–96, Mr. Bloch co-taught the Juilliard piano literature courses with [[Bruce Brubaker (musician)|Bruce Brubaker]]. After Mr. Bloch’s retirement in 1996, Brubaker continued teaching the piano literature courses at Juilliard for nine years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/record.php?id=753989541&contributor=5470&archivename=The+Juilliard+School+-+Lila+Acheson+Wallace+Library|title=Joseph Bloch Music Collection, 1942-1971}}</ref>
Bloch was born on November 6, 1917, in [[Indianapolis]], [[Indiana]]. He attended [[Chicago Musical College]], where he was awarded a bachelor's degree and later attended [[Harvard University]], where he earned a master's degree in [[musicology]]. His education was interrupted by his service in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]], where he was stationed in [[Guam]].<ref name=NYTObit>Fox, Margalit. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/arts/music/15bloch.html "Joseph Bloch, Guide to Juilliard Pianists, Dies at 91"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 14, 2009. Accessed March 14, 2009.</ref> While serving in the army Air Forces, he was stationed at [[Lowry Field]] in Denver, Colorado and became a captain.<ref>[https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/joseph-bloch "Joseph Bloch Collection"], ''University Libraries'' website, University of Maryland, January 4, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2021.</ref>
Bloch was a National Patron of [[Delta Omicron]], an international professional music fraternity.<ref>[http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html Delta Omicron] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127130549/http://delta-omicron.org/index00.html |date=2010-01-27 }}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2010}}<!--Bloch is not mentioned at this external link.-->
Bloch died at 91 on March 4, 2009, due to a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] at his home in [[Larchmont, New York]].<ref name=NYTObit/>
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