A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Lorenz, Franz

by Carl Ferdinand Pohl

LORENZ, Franz, physician and writer, bora at Stein, Lower Austria, April 4, 1805; took his doctor's degree 1831, and is now residing in Wiener-Neustadt. Like many other physicians, he has done much for music, and his publications are of special interest and value:—'In Sachen Mozart's' (Vienna, 1851), much praised by Köchel in his Mozart-Catologue (Preface, xvii.); 'Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven's Kirchenmusik,' etc.; 'W. A. Mozart als Clavier-Componist' (Breslau, 1866); various accurate and interesting contributions on Mozart, Beethoven, and Haydn, to the Deutsche Musik-Zeitung,^[1] 1861, 62; the Wiener Zeitung,^[2] Aug. 3, 1850, Aug. 16, 1863.^[3] It is to Dr. Lorenz that we owe Krenn's important account of Beethoven's last autumn, and the other anecdotes and traits there given. [See Krenn.]

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1. Mozart's Requiem (1861, No. 33, 48); Mozart's Klavier-Sonaten (do. 41, 42); Mozart's Masses (1862, No. 34, 35); Beethoven at Gneisendorf (do. 10); Haydn and his princely patrons (do. 45, 47, 48).
2. Mozart's death.
3. Haydn and Beethoven.