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GANSBACHER, JOHANN BAPTIST (1778-1844)

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GANSBACHER, JOHANN BAPTIST (1778-1844) , See also:Austrian musical composer, was See also:born in 1778 at Sterzing in See also:Tirol. His See also:father, a schoolmaster and teacher of See also:music, undertook his son's See also:early See also:education, which the boy continued under various masters till 1802, when he became the See also:pupil of the celebrated See also:Abbe G. J. See also:Vogler. To his connexion with this artist and with his See also:fellow-pupils, more perhaps than to his own merits, Gansbacher's permanent See also:place in the See also:history of music is due; for it was during his second stay with Vogler, then (r 81o) living at See also:Darmstadt, that he became acquainted with See also:Weber and See also:Meyerbeer, and the See also:close friendship which sprang up among the three See also:young musicians, and was dissolved by See also:death only, has become celebrated in the history of their See also:art. But Gansbacher was himself by no means without merit. He creditably filled the responsible and difficult See also:post of director of the music at St See also:Stephen's See also:cathedral, See also:Vienna, from 1823 till his death (See also:July 13, 1844); and his compositions show high gifts and accomplishment. They consist chiefly of See also:church music, 17 masses, besides litanies, motets, offertories, &c., being amongst the number. He also wrote several sonatas, a See also:symphony, and one or two See also:minor compositions of a dramatic See also:kind.

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