Vogler
GEORG JOSEPH, a German musical composer, usually styled the Abbé (Browning's Abt) Vogler; born in Würzburg, Germany, June 15, 1749, the son of a violin maker. He studied Bamberg, Mannheim, Bologna, and Pawas ordained priest at Rome in 1773; and made Knight of the Golden Spur, and prothontary and chamberlain to the Pope. Returning to Mannheim, he established there his first school of music; his second was that at Stockholm, where in 1786 he had been appointed kapellmeister . After years of wandering and brilliant successes as a player on his "orchestrion" at London and half over Europe, he settled as honored kapellmeister at Darmstadt, and opened his third school, the chief pupils of which were Gänsbacher, Weber, and Meyerbeer. He died in Darmstadt, Germany, May 6, 1814.