Andreas Lidel
Andreas Lidel , composer and virtuoso performer on the baryton and viola da gamba. From 1769 to 1774 he was in service at the court of the Prince Nikolaus Esterházy where he might have studied composition with Joseph Haydn. By 1778 Lidel had settled in London. His printed compositions include mostly chamber music for string instruments in the Viennese classical style. Schubart praised Lidel as the inventor and the most perfect virtuoso of baryton.
