Frantisek Koczwara

Koczwara was an eccentric and colorful Czech multi-instrumentalist and composer who all contributed to London’s colorful music life in the next half in the eighteenth hundred years. Above all he’s appreciated for his programmatic piece The Fight of Prague (released in 1788). Koczwara’s early lifestyle and career stay obscure, but he appears to have arrived in Britain sometime around 1775 when his initial publications were published in London. To guage from information on his printed series, he lived for some time in London, after that went to Shower, Ireland, and back again to London once again. His output comprises mainly of chamber music in the first Classical style targeted at England’s huge marketplace of amateur music artists. He also constructed a small number of parlor music in British, which, just like the almost all his result, are tuneful and easy. The Fight of Prague, originally for piano trio with ad-lib percussion results, was an enormous success also in Koczwara’s life time and circulated throughout European countries and THE UNITED STATES. A relatively plundered edition also appeared beneath the name The Siege of Quebec, this last mentioned version is currently generally known as an agreement by W.B. de Krifft. Shortly after its preliminary publication, The Fight of Prague was organized for single piano where it became, and offers since continued to be, a staple from the parlor piano repertoire. It is stated to have already been amongst Jane Austen’s preferred bits of music. Like a character Koczwara appears to have been something of the rogue. He exploited his central-European qualifications by peddling forged compositions as those of Haydn and additional continental composers. Nevertheless, probably the most notorious tale linked to the eccentric Bohemian was the uncommon types of his loss of life. Based on the reports from your trial from the Aged Bailey in London, Koczwara passed away within a “intimate experiment” inside a brothel.