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Johann Georg Lickl
, also
Ligkl
,
Hans-Georg Lickl
,
Hungarian
:
Lickl Gyorgy
(11 April 1769 ? 12 May 1843) was an Austrian composer, organist,
Kapellmeister
in the main church of Pecs, and
piano teacher
.
Biography
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Lickl was born in
Korneuburg
,
Lower Austria
, and
orphaned
as a child. He studied under
Witzig
, who was the organist at the church of Korneuburg.
He relocated to
Vienna
in 1785 and studied under
Albrechtsberger
and
Joseph Haydn
. He also formed a close friendship with
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
whom he also took lessons from. Later in the 1780s, he became organist at the
Carmelite
church in
Leopoldstadt
.
[1]
He collaborated with
Emanuel Schikaneder
on a number of
Singspiele
in the 1790s, working in the
Theater auf der Wieden
. He died, aged 74, in Funfkirchen (
Hungarian
:
Pecs
), southern
Royal Hungary
,
Imperial Austria
.
He wrote operas, one
wind quintet
, three
string quartets
,
[2]
and served as a
Kapellmeister
at several churches. From 1807 until his death he was choirmaster at what is now
Pecs
.
[3]
A large portion of his output is sacred music, including
masses
and
requiems
.
In 1843, some of his piano- and chamber music works were published by
Tobias Haslinger
(Vienna),
Johann Anton Andre
(Offenbach) and
Johann Carl Gombart
[
de
]
(Augsburg).
His sons, Karl Georg Lickl (1801, Vienna ? 1877, Vienna)
[4]
and Agid(ius Ferdinand) Karl Lickl (1803, Vienna ? 1864, Trieste),
[5]
were also composers, whose output includes works for piano and for
physharmonica
, including a transcription of
Beethoven
's
Mass in C major
for physharmonica and piano.
[6]
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