String quartet

SKU: HH.HH187-FSP

Composed by Vaclav Pichl. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. Two Violins, Viola, Violoncello. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH187-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH187-FSP).

ISBN 9781905779178.

Like so many of his compatriots, the Czech born Vaclav Pichl spent much of his working life in Vienna (where the Empress Maria Theresa, preferred him to Mozart), but with a period working for Dittersdorf (in what is now Rumania) and nearly twenty years spent in Milan. His compositions were performed at EszterhA!za by Haydn, who had a set of Pichl's new quartets copied in 1780 (he wrote over 30 quartets in all).His compositions were performed at EszterhA!za by Haydn, who had a set of Pichl's new quartets copied in 1780 (he wrote over 30 quartets in all).

String quartet

SKU: HH.HH196-FSP

Composed by Vaclav Pichl. Edited by Christopher Hogwood. Two Violins, Viola, Violoncello. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH196-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH196-FSP).

ISBN 9790708092674.

Op. 13, the present set of stylish and skilfully contrasted works were dedicated to Dittersdorf; they exploit all four instruments equally, even the viola being allocated elaborate solo passages, and offer an attractive alternative (as Haydn himself realised) to the standard Viennese works of this period.