!!!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.

!Works
oratorios, cantatas, songs, church music, works for keyboard 
instruments; theoretical studies and essays on music history

!Literature
K. Wagner (ed.), Abbe M. S., seine Materialien zur 
Geschichte der oe. Musik unter den oe. Regenten, 1974.


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