After fleeing Mannheim following a duel around 1752–1755, Franz Ignaz Beck traveled to Venice, where he pursued advanced musical training and became a pupil of the renowned Venetian composer Baldassarre Galuppi. During his years in Venice, Beck studied composition under Galuppi while also performing publicly as a violinist.
Galuppi, already one of the most celebrated opera composers in Europe at the time, accepted Beck as a student, and sources explicitly name Beck among his pupils. This period of study, taking place in the mid‑1750s before Beck left for Naples, played an important role in shaping Beck’s early development as a composer.
