Josef Alois Ladurner (7 March 1769 – 20 February 1851) was an Austrian composer from a widespread South Tyrol musician family.
After becoming a priest in Brixen in 1799 and later court chaplain and consistorial councillor, he continued directing choirs and teaching, active at the Innsbruck and Salzburg music societies.
Besides church music and organ works, they include many fantasias and variations for the piano, some of them published by Schott in Mainz and Falter in Munich.
[2] Ladurner owned a clavichord by Christoph Friedrich Schmahl of Regensburg, in Bavaria.
He wrote to Robert Schumann in a letter of 28 February 1838: "As for myself, my favourite entertainment is by means of my excellent Schmahl clavichord, which sounds wonderful.