Gregor Joseph Werner's lyrics & chords

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.[1] The appointment "opened a new era for music"[2] at the court;...read more