Stadler, Maximilian (1748-1833)

Austrian priest, organist, and composer. He completed some of the unfinished works of his friend Mozart, and his defence of the authenticity of Mozart's Requiem was published at Vienna in 1825.

He studied under Johann Albrechtsberger, and entered the Benedictine monastery of Melk, in Austria, in 1766. He was ordained in 1772, became a prior there in 1784, was appointed abbot of Lilienfeld in 1786, and of Kremsmünster in 1789. In 1796 he settled in Vienna, and after working as a parish priest 1803-15 returned there to devote himself entirely to music.

Works Church music Masses, two Requiems, Te Deum, three Magnificat settings, and other church music.

Choral oratorio Die Befreyung von Jerusalem (1811); music for Collin's tragedy Polyxena (1811); cantatas, including Frühlingsfeyer (Klopstock, 1813).

Works for keyboard organ sonatas and fugues; piano music.