Wenzel Pichl [SEP] cause of death
, as the result of a stroke while playing a violin concerto at the Palais Lobkowitz. He was 63 years old.
Selected works.
- Six symphonies, opus 1 (two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, drums, strings. about 1778. "SEI SINFONIE A PIÙ STROMENTI. Dedicate A SUA ALTEZZA REALE IL SERENISSIMO ARCIDUCA FERDINANTO Principe Reale d'Ungeria e Boemia ... Da WENCESLAO PICHL. in attuale Servizio dell'Istessa Altezza Reale. OPERA PRIMA")
- Six string quartets, opus 2 (in A,
and on the recommendation of the Empress Maria Theresa, he became music director for the Austrian governor of Lombardy at Milan, Archduke Ferdinand d'Este. Pichl went to Italy in 1777 and remained there until 1796 when the French invaded Lombardy, he then returned to Vienna, where he stayed in the service of the archduke until his death (apart from a brief visit to Prague in 1802). In 1785, he met Mozart and became friends with him. Mozartn
Wenzel Pichl died at Vienna, Austria, on 23 January 1805