Artist Info: Gregor Joseph Werner

Gregor Joseph Werner (28 January 1693 – 3 March 1766) was an Austrian composer.

Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau.[1] He served from 1715 to either 1716 or 1721 (unknown) as the organist at Melk Abbey.[1] During the 1720s he was in Vienna, where he may have studied with Johann Fux and was married on 27 January 1727.[1]

On 10 May 1728 he took up the position he was to hold for the rest of his life, as Kapellmeister at the Esterházy court in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt. [read more...]