Johann Georg Albrechtsberger gave lessons to Beethoven and succeeded Mozart, at the latter's request,

as assistant to the Kapellmeister of St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, with right of succession, a

promotion realised two years after Mozart's death, in 1793. He won contemporary distinction as an
organist, composer and teacher, and displayed a particular mastery of counterpoint, reflected in his own
240 fugues and in the later work of his pupil Beethoven.

Organ Music
Albrechtsberger published an enormous quantity of fugues and preludes and fugues, many for either
organ or harpsichord. He left some 278 keyboard works, which, in general, show his technical skill.

Chamber Music
Equally prolific in chamber music for various groups of instruments, Albrechtsberger based many of his
instrumental compositions on the church sonata of the Baroque period, with its contrapuntal content.

Orchestral Music
While Albrechtberger's four symphonies may be forgotten, his concertos for jew's harp have occasionally
made their way into the modern trumpet repertoire. He also wrote concertos for trombone, for harp and
for organ.