Hans Schläger

Hans (Johann) Schläger (5 December 1820 – 17 May 1885) was an Austrian conductor and composer, important in the musical life of Salzburg in the 1860s.

(Bruckner dedicated his early choral work Das Lied vom deutschen Vaterland, written in 1845, to Schläger).

[1][2] He was important in the musical life of Salzburg at this period, bringing notable choral works to the city for the first time, including Haydn's The Creation, Schumann's Paradise and the Peri and Mendelssohn's St.

[2] Compositions, some of which were printed, include operas (Hans Haidekukuk, Die Prophezeiung and Doctor und Friseur), songs, choral works, 2 symphonies and 3 string quartets.

[1][3] His biographer in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich (1875) wrote: "Music critics praise in Schläger's compositions originality of invention, stylish portrayal of characters and action, and colourful instrumentation.