Gregor Joseph Werner

Werner was an organist who all became the Kapellmeister in the Esterhazy courtroom. He offered there well and composed a fair quantity of vocal music which mirrors a cappella public in a tight contrapuntal feeling. Werner would also make use of the usage of string and blowing wind accompaniments. Though a lot of his melodies had been sharpened and jagged, various other themes had been conveyed using a folkish quality. These features are especially obvious in Werner’s secular cantatas and Xmas music. Demonstratively he may possibly also find a way to build up representational results in his music as exemplified in “Musicalischer Instrumental-Calender.” When Haydn found the Esterhazy courtroom as Kapellmeister, Werner continued to be on as Oberhofkapellmeister. Werner was however not particularly keen on the youthful Haydn.