Václav Pichl

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Václav Pichl (also Wenzel Pichl; born September 25, 1741 in Bechyně , Bohemia , † January 23, 1805 in Vienna , Austria ) was a Bohemian violinist , composer and music director .

Life

He began his first musical training in Bechyně with the teacher Jan Pokorny . In the period from 1752 to 1758 he worked as a singer at the Jesuit school in Březnice . Later he was a violinist at the Jesuit Seminary of St. Vaclav in Prague and studied philosophy , theology and law at the Karl Ferdinand University . In 1762 he was employed as first violinist at the Teyn Church while studying counterpoint with the organist Josef Seger . In 1765 he was employed by the composer Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf as a violinist for the private orchestra of Bishop Adam Patachich in Großwardein , today's Oradea in Romania . The orchestra disbanded in 1769, however, whereupon Pichl became Kapellmeister of Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague. As early as 1770 he joined the orchestra of the Kärntnertor Theater in Vienna as a violinist . In 1775 he was appointed Kapellmeister to Archduke Ferdinand Karl , the Austrian governor of Milan and the second youngest son of Empress Maria Theresa , where he worked for around twenty years. From 1790 to 1796 he was music director of the opera in Monza and returned to Vienna when the French Italian army invaded . Here he suffered a fatal stroke on January 23, 1805 when he was playing a violin concerto in the Lobkowitz Palace .

Pichl composed 20 operas, 30 solo concerts, 20 masses, 89 symphonies, many of which have been lost, and numerous chamber music works, including 148 pieces for the rare baryton instrument commissioned by Prince Nikolaus I Joseph Esterházy de Galantha in Eisenstadt .

Works (selection)

  • 6 symphonies op. 1
  • 6 string quartets op. 2 (1780)
  • 3 violin concertos op.3 (1775)
  • 6 duets for 2 violins op.4
  • 6 Divertimenti op.5 (1781)
  • 6 String Trios op.7 (1783)
  • 3 symphonies op.8
  • 3 serenades op.9 (1783)
  • Andante with 100 Variations op.11: Cento Variazioni sulla Scala del Basso fermo per esercizio del Violino (1787)
  • 3 flute quartets op.12 (1790)
  • 3 string quartets op.13
  • 3 Duets for Viola and Cello op.14 (1790)
  • 3 quartets op.16
  • 6 Duos for Violin and Viola Op.18 (1795)
  • 12 Caprices op.19: Douze Caprices à Violon seul (around 1795)
  • 3 trio sonatas op.26 (1796)
  • Etude pour le violon: formant 12 caprices op.46 (around 1801)
  • Bassoon Concerto in C major
  • Double bass concerto in D major
  • Symphony in E major (Clio)
  • Symphony in C major (Calliope)
  • Symphony in B flat major (Melpomene)
  • Symphony in D major (Diana)
  • 6 string trios

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Pichel, also Pichl, Wenzel . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 220–222 ( digitized version ).
  • Barbara Boisits: Pichl (Pichel), Wenzel (Václav, Venceslaus). In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .
  • Johann Hárich: The Eszterháza Opera Ensemble in 1780 . In: Das Haydn-Jahrbuch 1970, ZDB -ID 214184-x , pp. 5–46, especially 26.
  • Rudolf Pečman (Ed.): Bohemia and Italy . In: Rudolf Pečman (ed.): Musica bohemica et europaea . International Musical Festival, Brno 1970, pp. 289-297.
  • Jitřenka Pešková: Václav Pichl. Žák březnické jesuitské koleje . In Hudební věda 9, 1972, pp. 160-161.
  • Antonín Myslík: Repertoire and cast of harmony music at the Schwarzenberg, Pachta and Clams-Gallas courts . In: Das Haydn-Jahrbuch 1978, ZDB -ID 214184-x , pp. 110–119.
  • Anita Zakin: A Checklist of Authentic Symphonies by Wenzel Pichl (1741-1805) , Ballston (NY) 1983
  • This: Wenzel Pichl, Three Symphonies , in The Symphony 1720-1840 , ed. by Barry S. Brook, Series B. Volume 7, New York / London 1984
  • Zdeňka Pilková: Doba osvícenského absolutismu (1740-1810) . In: Jaromír Černý: Hudba v českých dějinách. Od strědověku do nové doby . 2nd supplemented edition. Editio Supraphon, Prague 1989, ISBN 80-7058-163-8 , pp. 211-284, especially: 266, 272.

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personal data
SURNAME Pichl, Václav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pichl, Wenzel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Czech violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1741
PLACE OF BIRTH Bechyně , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1805
Place of death Vienna , Austria