Johann Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner was a German polymath, promoting the Enlightenment in Bavaria. While working as a civil servant for the Bavarian court, he published a hymnal which contained a complete German High Mass and songs such as "Das Grab ist leer, der Held erwacht" for which he is known. These hymns and especially his German mass, used in settings by Michael Haydn, remain popular to this day.

Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.