![Johann Baptist Peyer]() | Johann Baptist Peyer (1680 - 1733)  AustriaAustrian organist and composer . He may have received his education at the Heiligenkreuz monastery, where another Johann Baptist Peyer (1651–1726) worked as camerarius major from 1693 to 1698; the younger (and possibly related) J.B. Peyer was active as organist and musical instructor there from 1698. He worked for the Empress Eleonora, widow of Leopold I, from about 1712 until her death in 1720, and thereafter at the central court chapel under the direction of J.J. Fux. The major extant source of keyboard works by Peyer (D-B 1220, copied in Vienna, cnull... |
