Frantisek Kotzwara

František Kočvara, known later in England as Frantisek Kotzwara (1730[1] – September 2, 1791[2][3]), was a Czech violist,[1] virtuoso double bassist and composer.

On September 2, 1791, while he was in London, Kotzwara visited a prostitute named Susannah Hill in Vine Street, Westminster.

Kotzwara then tied a ligature around the doorknob, the other end fastened around his neck, and proceeded to have sexual intercourse with Hill.

The court records of the case were supposedly destroyed in order to avoid a public scandal, though it is likely that some kind of copy was made.

[5] In 1984 a paper about Kotzwara's death was published in the American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, entitled "The sticky end of Frantisek Koczwara, composer of The Battle of Prague".