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Modern propensities, or, An essay on the art of strangling, &c.: illustrated with several anecdotes: with memoirs of Susannah Hill, and a summary of her trial at the Old-Bailey, on Friday, September 16, 1791, on the charge of hanging Francis Kotzwarra, at her lodgings in Vine Street, on September
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about the incident, including Hill's account of the event. A 2005 radio competition organised by the Radio Prague station led a listener to reveal that these court records had in fact not been destroyed, and somehow found their way to the
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Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians 1980, gives the date of death as 2 September 1791, with the date of the subsequent trial of Susan Hill on 16 September 1791.
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On September 2, 1791, while he was in London, Kotzwara visited a prostitute named Susannah Hill in
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3 Sonatas for viola with basso continuo, Op. 1 (published by W.N. Haueisen, Frankfurt am Main
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with Hill. After it was over, Kotzwara was dead. His is one of the first recorded deaths from
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3 Sonatas for the harpsichord or pianoforte with accompaniment for violin, Op. 34 (published
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6 Trio Sonatas for 2 violin with basso continuo (2 horns ad lib.), Op. 5 (published 1778)
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Susannah Hill was charged with Kotzwara's murder, and tried on September 16 at the
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4 Sonatas for viola with basso continuo, Op. 2 (published by Bonvin, Paris 1787)
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was a popular piece of music during the late 18th and 19th centuries, with
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Ober, WB. (1984). "The sticky end of Frantisek Koczwara, composer of
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Emigrants from the Holy Roman Empire to the Kingdom of Great Britain
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3 Serenades for violin, viola, cello and 2 horns, Op. 1 (published
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in C major for flute and violin (or 2 violins) with basso continuo
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in D major for flute and violin (or 2 violins) with basso continuo
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in G minor for flute and violin (or 2 violins) with basso continuo
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His death was one of the first recorded instances of death by
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In 1984 a paper about Kotzwara's death was published in the
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Some sources give Kotzwara's year of birth as 1750 or 1740.
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American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
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Some sources give Kotzwara's year of death as 1793.
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American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
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Státní hudební vydavatelství. p. 260. 364:in F major for 2 violins with basso continuo 370:in C major for 2 violas with basso continuo 328:6 Trio Sonatas (published 1777?, London): 593:International Music Score Library Project 577:Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 71:Learn how and when to remove this message 34:This article includes a list of general 430: 340:major for 2 violins with basso continuo 7: 282:Francis Countway Library of Medicine 204:mentioning the piece in his books 184:, a composition based on the 1757 90:(1730 – September 2, 1791), was a 40:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 663:English classical double-bassists 589:Free scores by Frantisek Kotzwara 678:18th-century classical composers 638:Czech Classical-period composers 544:10.1097/00000433-198406000-00008 453:Chang, Ching (8 November 2001). 308:6 Songs (published 1775, London) 25: 648:Czech classical double-bassists 643:Czech male classical composers 207:Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1: 147:. 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