Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Beecke, Ignaz Von

by John Weeks Moore

Beecke, Ignaz Von., captain of dragoons in the regiments of Prince Frederic of Wurtemourg, at Vienna, was born in 1733. He composed a considerable quantity of vocal and instrumental music between the years 1780 and 1802. His compositions for the piano-forte are much admired at Vienna. He died in 1803.