Raimund Pechotsch
Raimund Pechotsch was an Austrian-born Australian composer. He was a composer of classical and incidental musical theatre pieces. He was a Roman Catholic who also conducted liturgical musicLife
Pechotsch born and raised in Vienna, Austria from Czechoslavakian parents. Pechotsch emigrated to Australia in 1887 after ten years in London.
Pechotsch was musical director for Australian stage producer Oscar Asche. Raimund also worked for music publisher Palings and taught violin and piano in Sydney for many years.
Raimund Pechotsch wrote incidental music for Walter Howards 1910 play The Prince and the Beggarmaid which was very successful in London and Australia. He also wrote music to accompany "Pete" a Lewis Parker stage adaptation of Hall Caine Manxman novel.
His son Eric Mareo was convicted of murdering his wife in 1935 in NZ.
Later in life he remarried Alice McCarthy, the daughter of fellow Australian composer Doctor William Charles MacCarthy.Works
- The cycling schottische
- A lost love with words by Frederick Augustus Packer
- Emu waltz 1896
- For thee : song with violin obligato with words by Ernest Glanville-Hicks
- Fire a shot for the Empire with foreign journalist Dulcie Deamer
- To a butterfly with Australian poet Agnes Littlejohn
- Sympathy Waltz
- Gem Waltz
- Cradle song : Chant du berceau
- Romance
- Liebslied
- My love and I with lyrics by Marie Van Brakkel
- Tears and pearls with lyrics by Henry C. de Witt
- Monsieur Peaucoire waltz
