A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Troyers, Ferdinand

TROYERS, Ferdinand, Count Von, Imperial councillor, and chief officer of the household to the Cardinal Archduke Rudolph (Beethoven's pupil), was an amateur clarinet player, and distinguished pupil of Friedlowsky (Professor at the Conservatorium from 1821 to 47). He is mentioned as one of the executants at a Gesellschaft concert in 1816. Troyers is stated, on the authority of Doppler (manager for Diabelli & Co.) to have given Schubert the commission for his well-known Octet, op. 166, composed in 1824. [See vol. iii. p. 339b.^[1]]

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1. Where the name is wrongly spelt as Troyer.