Karl Holz (violinist)

He played second violin in Ignaz Schuppanzigh's string quartet and served as secretary to Ludwig van Beethoven during the last few years of the composer's life.

In Vienna in 1819, the violinist Joseph Böhm assembled a new string quartet, and Holz – a civil servant in the Austrian government by profession[1] – joined as second violin.

95 in 1810, began work on a commission from Prince Nicholas Galitzin to write three string quartets.

'My dear fellow, I've just had another idea,' he would say jocularly and with glistening eyes when we were out walking, and would write down a few notes in his sketchbook.

[1][4] After Ignaz Schuppanzigh's death in 1830, Leopold Jansa, a violinist and composer, formed a string quartet with Holz and another member of Schuppanzigh's quartet, the cellist Josef Linke.