Raimund Pechotsch

Raimund Leo Pechotsch (23 July 1864 – 20 January 1941) was a composer of romantic and incidental musical theatre pieces. He was a Roman Catholic who also conducted liturgical music. Life Pechotsch was born in Vienna, his father Adalbert Pechotsch being a composer of some note. The band had been contracted to perform at the Melbourne Exhibition of 1881. He remained in Australia, but moved to Sydney. He was in Brisbane then left for New Zealand 1889. 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. Pechotsch wrote incidental music for Walter Howard’s 1910 play The Prince and the Beggar Maid which was very successful in London and Australia. He also wrote music (orchestrated for ensemble of twenty) to accompany “Pete” a Lewis Parker stage adaptation of Hall Caine’s novel The Manxman. Later in life he remarried Alice McCarthy, the daughter of fellow Australian composer Dr 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