Georg Christoph Wagenseil: Prelude in d

Tibor Pinter plays on the sample set of Schmidt organ (1766) in the church of Peruc, Czech Republic. Pictures: The main organ of Klosterkirche in Reihnau, Switzerland. Georg Christoph Wagenseil (1715-1777). Austrian composer, keyboard player and teacher. He can be considered one of the pivotal figures in the development of the Classical style in Vienna with a compositional career that spanned a period from Fux, his teacher, to Haydn and W.A. Mozart, for whom he served as a precursor. He served as organist from 1741 to 1750 in the private chapel of Empress Elisabeth Christine (widow of Charles VI), and in 1749 became Hofklaviermeister to the imperial archduchesses. (Oxford Music Online)