Stadler, Maximilian Johann Karl Dominik, Abbé Stadler#

Stadler, Maximilian (Johann Karl Dominik), "Abbe S.", b. Melk (Lower Austria), Aug. 4, 1748, d. Vienna, Nov. 8, 1833, composer, music historian, pianist. From 1766 Benedictine monk at Melk Monastery (Lower Austria), 1784-1786 Prior at Melk, 1786 Abbot of Lilienfeld, 1789 in Kremsmuenster; from 1791 lived in Linz and from 1796 in Vienna, where he arranged the writings and compositions in the estate of W. A. Mozart and was in charge of the Imperial Music Archives. secularized in 1803. S. was one of the most famous personalities of the musical scene in Vienna at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, he was a friend of Mozart, J. Haydn, L. van Beethoven and Franz Schubert and produced numerous essays about Mozart. His work ´Materials on the history of Music´ ("Materialien zur Geschichte der Musik"), which is no longer extant, is regarded as the first history of music in Austria.

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