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Johann Wilhelm Hässler (Composer)

Born: 29th March 1747, Erfurt, Germany

Died: 22nd March 1822, Moscow, Russia

Nationality: German

Johann Wilhelm Hässler was a German composer, organist and pianist.

Hässler was born in Erfurt. He first studied under his uncle Johann Christian Kittel, who was an organist at Erfurt. His first post was as organist of the local Barfüßerkirche in around 1762. His father died in 1769 and from then on he also managed the family fur business, though he still managed concert tours of Germany in the early 1770s, then in other places in Europe in the 1780s and 1790s. On 15 April 1789 he entered an organ competition with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Dresden during Mozart's Berlin journey.

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