(b. Launowicz, Bohemia, 16811; d. Dresden, Dec. 22-3, 1745), composer. He was educated a t the Je su it College in Prague, was in the service of Freiherr Joseph Ludwig von Hartig as musician there in 1690, entered the band of the Dresden Hofkapelle as double-bass player in 1710, and obtained leave of absence in 1716 in order to study composition with J . J . Fux a t Vienna. In the same year he was taken in the suite of the Prince Elector to Italy, and became a pupil of Lotti, but returned to Vienna in 1717, and to Dresden in 1719. In 1723, for the coronation of Karl VI. a t Prague, he wrote music to a Latin comedy, 4 Melodrama de Sancto Wenceslao.' He succeeded Heinichen (whose coadjutor he had been since 1719) as director of church music in 1729, and received the title of court composer in 1733. He was a voluminous composer, leaving no fewer than 2 1 masses, 108 psalms, motets, etc. Three I talian oratorios, 41 penitenti al sepolcro,' 4II serpente di bronzo,' 4 Giesu al Calvario,' three cantatas, 4 Immisit Dominus,' 4 Deus dux,' and 4 Attendite e t videte,' besides a serenata and the 4 melodrama ' above mentioned, with other compositions in his autograph, were kept in a special cupboard in the Catholic Church a t Dresden, and the State Library there has the largest collection of his manuscript compositions. Hardly any of them appear to have been published (Q.-L.). m.