Johann Georg Lickl

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Johann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, {{langx|hu|Lickl György}} (11 April 1769 – 12 May 1843) was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher.

Biography

Lickl was born in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, and orphaned as a child. He studied under Witzig, who was the organist at the church of Korneuburg.

He relocated to Vienna in 1785 and studied under Albrechtsberger and Joseph Haydn. He also formed a close friendship with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart whom he also took lessons from. Later in the 1780s, he became organist at the Carmelite church in Leopoldstadt.{{Interlanguage link multi|Karmeliterkirche (Leopoldstadt)|de}} He collaborated with Emanuel Schikaneder on a number of Singspiele in the 1790s, working in the Theater auf der Wieden. He died, aged 74, in Fünfkirchen ({{langx|hu|Pécs}}), southern Royal Hungary, Imperial Austria.

He wrote operas, one wind quintet, three string quartets,{{cite web|title=Recorded on the Label Hungaroton.|url=http://www.hungaroton.hu/en/node/2476|accessdate=2008-08-26|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120803000337/http://www.hungaroton.hu/en/node/2476|archivedate=3 August 2012}} and served as a Kapellmeister at several churches. From 1807 until his death he was choirmaster at what is now Pécs.{{cite web|title=Review of Recording of Lickl's String Quartets|url=http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/h/hgr32220a.php|accessdate=2008-08-26}}

A large portion of his output is sacred music, including masses and requiems.

In 1843, some of his piano- and chamber music works were published by Tobias Haslinger (Vienna), Johann Anton André (Offenbach) and {{Interlanguage link multi|Johann Carl Gombart|de}} (Augsburg).

His sons, Karl Georg Lickl (1801, Vienna – 1877, Vienna)Peter Branscombe, "Johann Georg Lickl". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan, 2001. and Ägid(ius Ferdinand) Karl Lickl (1803, Vienna – 1864, Trieste),{{cite web|url=http://www.operone.de/komponist/licklaefk.html|title=Ägidius Ferdinand Karl Lickl|website=operone.de|accessdate=6 October 2017}} were also composers, whose output includes works for piano and for physharmonica, including a transcription of Beethoven's Mass in C major for physharmonica and piano.{{cite web|title=Copy of Karl Lickl's Beethoven Transcription in the Henselt Collection |url=http://www.henseltlibrary.org/scores3.html |accessdate=2008-08-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503062807/http://www.henseltlibrary.org/scores3.html |archivedate=3 May 2008 }}