Wolfgang Ebner (16121665) was a German baroque composer. He was a Viennese court organist in the latter years of the reign of
Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, and then of
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; hu, I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria An ...
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Ebner was born in
Augsburg. He may have preceded
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer as ballet master at the court.
[The Instrumental Music of Schmeltzer, Biber, Muffat and Their p91 Charles E. Brewer - 2011 Perhaps one of the earliest sets preserved was by Wolfgang Ebner (1612-1665), who was "Hoforganist" beginning in the reign of Ferdinand III, and like Schmeltzer was retained by Leopold I. Ebner probably preceded Schmeltzer as ballet ...] He died in
Vienna.
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German classical composers
German Baroque composers
1612 births
1665 deaths
17th-century classical composers
German male classical composers
17th-century male musicians
17th-century German composers
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