Josef Schnabel

Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (24 May 1767 – 16 June 1831) was a German composer and church musician.

However chronic ear-ache developed after he fell into some water and he was considered to be no longer suitable for a priest's life.

In 1819 he founded the Association of Sacred Music at the university with Friedrich Wilhelm Berner and Johann Theodor Mosewius.

His son Joseph Schnabel, who also composed, was an organist and music teacher in Glogau.

Schnabel's most famous work is based on material that he found in the archives of the Wrocław cathedral by an unknown composer of the early 18th century, the piece is known as Transeamus usque Bethlehem and this is now part of the standard repertoire of many church choirs.