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JOHANN BAPTIST GANSBACHER (1778-1844)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 454 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GANSBACHER (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, See also: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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