I resolved part of the mystery of Vaclav Wenzel Wenceslas Pichl
yesterday after a long search in cyberspace. I'll detail my journey, as
there may be useful information here.
The liner notes in my Kocian Quartet CD say that the name on the Pichl
quartet manuscript is not written clearly; that it could be the work of
a German-born composer named Lickl, of which there were several.
Then I surfed the internet for both, and I eventually stumbled on
http://www.worldcat.org/ , which allows anyone to simultaneously search
many libraries around the world - amazing. While there, I found a wind
quartet by Johann Georg Lickl, named "Cassazione". That is the name of
the 1st movement on my Kocian CD. To make sure that this is the Pichl
quartet, I visited Amazon.com, searched for Lickl and came up with a CD
that contains what looked like the same thing. Amazon allows you to
listen to sound samples - that confirmed it.
Short story, the Wenzel Pichl wind quartet was composed by Johann Georg
Lickl. Back to worldcat.org - this site will list all of the libraries
that have the piece in their catalog. In this case, there are many.
But a possible complicating factor is that there might be further
confusion - between the Lickl-Pichl Cassazione, and one by Mozart for
the same 4 winds. Mozart's name appears through the worldcat.org
library hits, and in one case at least, appears the word "forgery". So
it ain't over yet. I don't remember the Mozart Cassazione. Amazon
seems to be down just now(!) so I can't get a sound sample of the Mozart
to compare with Lickl-Pichl.
On a side note, I stumbled on another interesting website with lots of
links: http://www.music.ucsb.edu/projects/csms/ , the Czech and Slovak
Music Society.
David Goldberg
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