Wenzel Raimund Birck

Wenzel Raimund Johann Birck (also spelled "Pirck", "Birk", "Birckh", "Pirckh", "Pürk", and "Pürck") (1718–1763)^[1] was one of the early proponents of Symphonic music in Vienna, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil and Georg Matthias Monn, and an early tutor for Mozart^[2]. Birck also, along with Georg Christoph Wagenseil tutored a young Joseph Haydn^[3].

See also

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Symphony

References

• Biba, Otto. 2001. "Pirck, Wenzel Raimund (Johann)". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
• American Fact Finders: Ludwig van Beethoven
• The Mozart Project

Notes