Wagenseil, Georg Christoph (1715-1777)

Austrian composer. He was also organist to the dowager Empress Elisabeth Christine 1741-50, and was appointed music master to the Empress Maria Theresa and her daughters. Mozart, at the age of six, played at court a concerto by Wagenseil, who turned pages for him.

He studied in Vienna with Johann Fux and others and in 1735 was recommended for a court scholarship, becoming court composer in 1739.

Works Opera Ariodante (1745), Le cacciatrici amanti (1755), and about ten others (six to libretti by Metastasio).

Oratorio oratorios La rendenzione and Gioas, rè di Giuda (both 1735).

Orchestral symphonies; keyboard concertos.

Choral nearly 20 Masses, Requiem, motets, and other church music.

Other divertimenti for solo keyboard.