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Franz Ignaz Danzi

by Georg Predota April 13th, 2026 Tags: Danzi

Wind Quintets at 200 Two hundred years ago, on 13 April 1826, Franz Ignaz Danzi (1763-1826) died in Karlsruhe, aged 62. He had known Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in his youth, had mentored the young Carl Maria von Weber, and had

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