Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner
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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 comp
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Michael Haydn
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Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Franz Seraph von Kohlbrenner
…leer, der Held erwacht" (The grave is empty, the hero awoken) for which he is known. These hymns and especially his German mass, used in settings by Michael Haydn, remain popular to this day. Beginning life as Johann Franz Seraph Kohlbrenner in Traunstein on 17 October 1728, he was the son of Rupert Kohlbrenner…
Crypt 54 (St Peter's Cemetery, Salzburg): communal vault in which Maria Anna Mozart and Michael Haydn are buried
St. Peter's Church in Salzburg and the entrance to the Michael Haydn Library
Portrait of Michael Haydn by Franz Xaver Hornöck