John Weeks Moore

“ Albrechtsberger said of himself', "I have no merit in composing good fugues, for I do not recollect ever having an idea that might not be employed in double counterpoint." It is from Albrechtsberger and Sebastian Bach, and like men, that the materiel of harmony is acquired : they have furnished our musical store-houses and arsenals ; they have equipped our Haydns, Mozarts, and Beethovens for the field; they discovered and laid bare "the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony." ”

“ In the mean time he learned the organ and composition of Monn, the court organist, and was soon himself appointed organist at Raab. In 1772, he obtained the situation of court organist, and member of the academy at Vienna, and subsequently was made chapel-master at the Cathedral of St. ”