Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 17., Hormayrg. 2	Standorte: CD.01B Vanh	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

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Vanhal¿s success rested upon his considerable gifts as a composer and his willingness to adapt his skills to the current tastes. He also had the crucial good fortune to have developed relationships with several publishers (Huberty through the 1770s, and later various others in Berlin, Amsterdam, Leipzig and London) and the foresight to exploit those opportunities. Music publishing in Vienna really only begins in 1778; most of the transfer of written music until then was in the form handwritten manuscripts. In the decade from 1771¿81 Vanhal was certainly the most widely published Viennese composer, far outstripping the elder Joseph Haydn or the young Mozart. In an obituary that appeared in the January 1814 edition of the Leipzig Allgemeine musicalishce Zeitung, Johann Friedrich Rochlitz wrote, ¿Wanhall was for a time, and especially until the works of J. Haydn and Mozart became more widely known and made deeper inroads, one of the most popular, indeed one of the most renowned instrumental composers in Germany. His sonatas, duets, trios, concertos and particularly his quartets and symphonies were heard everywhere¿¿