!!!Gänsbacher, Johann Baptist

b. Sterzing/Vipiteno (South Tyrol), May 28, 1778, 
d. Vienna, July 13, 1844, composer; father of Josef  Gaensbacher. 
Studied under J. G.  Albrechtsberger and Abbe Vogler, from 1824 
musical director of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna; supported 
musical life in Innsbruck; fought in the struggles for Tyrol's 
independence against Napoleon.

!Works
35 masses, 7 requiem masses, 2 singspiels, chamber music, 
marches, songs.

!Literature
C. Fischnaler, J. G., 1878.



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