Carl Höckh (22 January 1707 – 25 November 1773) was a German violinist and composer.

Biography

Carl Höckh was born in January 1707 to Christoph and Magdalena Höckh of Ebersdorf. He studied violin with his father and voice with Ferdinand Dorfmüller. He was then taught by Michael Schade before becoming a military

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. As a member of the Franz Paul Graf Weilli regiment, he spent two years in Temesvár and Orsova before leaving to travel through Poland with

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, Georg Zarth and Wilhelm Weidner. All four became musicians for Sukascheffski Szaniawsky, governor of

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; Höckh played violin and horn. In 1734, he became music director at

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on the recommendation of Benda, teaching and performing violin. His students included

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, and

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Works

Höckh is considered "one of the founders of the German school of violin playing" – he wrote extensively and idiomatically for the instrument, incorporating more advanced techniques than most of his contemporaries. His works include eleven symphonies, seventeen

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s, seven

partita Partita (also ''partie'', ''partia'', ''parthia'', or ''parthie'') was originally the name for a single-instrumental piece of music (16th and 17th centuries), but Johann Kuhnau (Thomaskantor until 1722), his student Christoph Graupner, and Johann ...

s, twenty-seven

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s, and thirty-four capricetti.

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