Pichl: Symphonies

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Release Date: 01 January 2007

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313276127

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: PICHL

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Wenzel Pichl (1741-1805) Symphonies Wenzel Pichl belongs to that comparatively small but distinguished company of eighteenth-century composers whose education was not restricted solely to vocational training in music. After receiving his early musical training in Bechyně, near Tábor, from the local Kantor Jan Pokorný, he attended first the Jesuit college at Březnice, where he served as a singer, and later studied philosophy, theology and law at the university in Prague. Very little is known about Pichl's early professional activities although his name appears among a list of choristers at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1760. Two years later he secured an appointment as first violin at the church at Týn, while continuing his studies in counterpoint with the organist J.N. Seeger. The most important of Pichl's early appointments occurred in 1765 when Carl Ditters (later Baron von Dittersdorf), whom he must have encountered in Vienna when he was singing at the Burgtheater, engaged him as a violinist and assistant director for the private orchestra of Bishop Adam Patachich at Großwardein (Oradea, Romania). Ditters and Pichl, similar both in age and in their broad intellectual interests, struck up a close friendship and there is little doubt that Ditters exercised considerable influence over Pichl's development as a composer. After the dissolution of the orchestra in 1769, Pichl returned to Prague where he served as music director for Count Ludwig Hartig. The following year, he was appointed first violinist of the orchestra at the Kärntnerthortheater in Vienna, as Dittersdorf relates in his autobiography:By good luck there was a vacancy for the post of first violin at the German Theatre, and Pichl got it. The pay was not more than four hundred and fifty florins a year, but he accepted it eagerly. His services were only required of an evening, so he had the whole day to himself, and could devote it to his pupils. I was happy knowing that my best friend was comfortably provided with a steady income of one thousand and fifty gulden a year.Pichl clearly made a good impression in Vienna and in 1777, on the recommendation of the Empress Maria Theresia, he was appointed music director and Kammerdiener to the Austrian governor of Lombardy, Archduke Ferdinando d'Este. Pichl went to Italy in 1777 and remained there until 1796 when the French invasion of Lombardy prompted his return to Vienna. While living in Italy Pichl visited all the important musical centres. He was in contact with Padre Martini and Cherubini, among others, was made a member of the Filarmonici at Mantua (from 1779) and Bologna (from 1782), and for a time served as music director of the theatre at Monza. It is thought that Pichl may have served as Prince Nikolaus II Esterházy's musical trustee in Milan; certainly Pichl's own music was performed at Eszterháza under Haydn's direction. He continued in
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