tears of melancholy (during the summer of 1825) and confessed to me that his own music had never had such an effect on him before, and that even thinking back to that piece cost him fresh tears." After Beethoven In 1829, Holz became a director of the Concerts Spirituels, a series of concerts in Vienna, which had been established in 1819. (They were based on the Concert Spirituel series of concerts in Paris during religious holidays.) As director, Holz frequently programmed works of Beethoven in the concerts. 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. References 1798 births 1858 deaths Musicians from Vienna Austrian classical violinists 19th-century classical violinists Male classical violinists 19th-century German musicians 19th-century male musicians