Ferdinand Kauer

Ferdinand August Kauer (18 January 1751 – 13 April 1831) was a Moravian-born Austrian composer, keyboard player, and theatre Kapellmeister whose career was shaped by the bustling popular stages of late eighteenth-century Vienna. Born in Klein-Thaya (Kleintajax; today Dyjákovičky near Znojmo), he received early education in Moravia and went on to studies that included time in Tyrnau (Trnava) before he settled in Vienna around 1777, supporting himself initially through teaching and further musical study.