String quartet op. 13/1

-（-）（） 20 Eszterháza 1780 （ 30 ）"

Composer: Pichl Wenzeslaus
Arranger: Hogwood, Christopher
Instrument: 2 violins, viola and cello
Publisher: Edition HH Limited
Description:
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 Eszterháza 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 Eszterháza by Haydn, who had a set of Pichl's "new quartets" copied in 1780 (he wrote over 30 quartets in all).