Johann Baptist Krall

Johann Baptist Krall (1803–4 May 1883) was an Austrian composer, conductor, music editor/arranger, and member of the board of directors of the Wiener Singverein of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde. Early life He was a pupil of the organist and composer :de:Joseph Preindl (1756-1823), who succeeded Johann Albrechtsberger as Domkapellmeister at St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna in 1809; Krall was also a pupil of Preindl’s successor Ignaz von Seyfried. An Offertory of Krall’s was sung in Vienna in 1825. Krall was a torchbearer (Fackelträger) aged c.23 in Beethoven’s funeral procession on 29 March 1826, in which his teacher von Seyfried held one of the cords attached to the pall covering Beethoven’s coffin. Concerts at the Piarist church In early 1845, Krall was the chorus director of the Music Society of the Piarist Church, Vienna (‘Piaristenkirche Musikverein’). The church (finished 1758) dedicated to Maria Treu (Faithful Maria) has a long-standing musical tradition because of its excellent acoustics: the Piarists, the oldest Catholic educational order, had commissioned Haydn’s Missa in tempore belli, first performed there in 1796. A church musical society (‘Musikverein’) was first est