Johann Gansbacher

Johann Baptist Gänsbacher (8 May, 1778 – 13 July, 1844), Austrian musical composer, was born in 1778 in Sterzing in the County of Tyrol. His father, a schoolmaster and teacher of music, undertook his son's early education, which the boy continued under various masters until 1802, when he became the pupil of the celebrated Abbé G. J. Vogler. To his connection with this artist and with his fellow pupils, more perhaps than to his own merits,