Name Carl Hockh | ||
Carl Hockh (22 January 1707 – 25 November 1773) was a German violinist and composer.
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Biography
Carl Hockh was born in January 1707 to Christoph and Magdalena Hockh of Ebersdorf. He studied violin with his father and voice with Ferdinand Dorfmuller. He was then taught by Michael Schade before becoming a military oboist. As a member of the Franz Paul Graf Weilli regiment, he spent two years in Temesvar and Orsova before leaving to travel through Poland with Franz Benda, Georg Zarth and Wilhelm Weidner. All four became musicians for Sukascheffski Szaniawsky, governor of Warsaw; Hockh played violin and horn. In 1734, he became music director at Zerbst on the recommendation of Benda, teaching and performing violin. His students included Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, Johann Wilhelm Hertel, and Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch.
Works
Hockh 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 violin concertos, seven partitas, twenty-seven violin sonatas, and 34 capricetti.