Drexel, Johannes Chrystostomus 1758 - 1801

Johannes Chrysostomus Drexel (1758 – 1801) was in his day a director of music at the ''Hoher Dom zu Augsburg'' (Great Cathedral in Augsburg) in Bavaria. He was born in Epfenhausen bei Landsberg, Bavaria, and was taught by Michael Haydn in Salzburg, Austria. He was a well-known master in the Augsburg region in which a ''fine and good style of church writing''emerged. Nonetheless his religious and secular works remained widely unknown.