Wenceslaus Wodiczka (c.1715-1774) - Sonata in F, Op.1, No.6 (1739)
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Composer: Wenceslaus Wodiczka (c.1715-1774)
Work: Sonata in F, Op.1, No.6 (1739)
Performers: BohusIav Matousek (violin); Petr Hejny (viola da gamba); JarosIav Tuma (harpsichord)
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Wenceslaus (Wenzl, Václav) Wodiczka [Vodička]
(Bohemia, c.1715 - Munich, bur. 1 July 1774)
Violinist and composer, of Bohemian descent. He was a bondsman in Bohemia of Count Franz Xaver Wieznik, to whom he is said to have presented a fine team of horses in return for his freedom. In 1732 he entered the service of Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria, later Emperor Karl VII (1742-5), as a violinist at a salary of 380 gulden; his salary had risen to 500 gulden in 1738. In 1739 a privilege was granted in Paris for the publication of his Sei sonate, op.1. Wodiczka enjoyed great favour at the electoral court. In 1745 he was given the title of groom of the chamber to Karl Albrecht's sister Princess Maria Anna Carolina, and in 1747, under Elector Maximilian III Joseph, he was appointed Konzertmeister and electoral councillor. He taught the violinists of the Munich Seminarium Gregorianum and was one of the founders of the Cecilian Fraternity of court musicians in 1749. Wodiczka is the only composer to be listed with his first name, as ‘Sig: Wenzl’, in the 1753 catalogue of musical works in the possession of the electoral Hofkapelle. His family was on friendly terms with the Mozart family. Wodiczka left only instrumental works. As a violin composer he stands between the Baroque and the early Classical styles. His published sonatas show a characteristic fondness for the minuet and siciliano, and have an unmistakable individuality and gaiety. Of the 48 symphonies that he wrote for use in the Munich court church, 24 survive; nine are in one movement, two in two movements and 13 in three movements. A violin method was published in Amsterdam as Korte instructie voor de vioole in 1757. In 1746 Wodiczka married Maria Johann Brentani (c.1715-1781), a soprano who was trained in Italy and who served at Munich as Hof- und Kammervirtuosin from 1735 to 1778. Their daughter Walburga (b 1749), also a soprano, sang in opera productions at court between 1764 and 1771 and from 1764 until 1775 was Titulär-Kammerdienerin to Electress Maria Anna, wife of Maximilian III Joseph; in 1771 she was described as virtuosa da camera. Joseph Wodiczka (c.1726-1794), a violinist in the Munich court orchestra from 1752, may have been a brother of Wenceslaus Wodiczka. #ClassicalMusic