Anton Teyber
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Anton Teyber was an Austrian organist, Kapellmeister
Kapellmeister
Kapellmeister is a German word designating a person in charge of music-making. The word is a compound, consisting of the roots Kapelle and Meister . The words Kapelle and Meister derive from the Latin: capella and magister...

 and composer.

Anton Teyber was born and died in Vienna. His brother was Franz Teyber
Franz Teyber
Franz Teyber was an Austrian Kapellmeister, organist and composer of orchestral and chamber music. Studying at Wagenseil, from 1786 he was director of the Schikaneder theatre company and from 1801 a composer and musical director of the Theater an der Wien...

. He taught the children of the Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a medieval ruler who, as German King, had also received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope...

http://books.google.com/books?id=yumx2czL9rEC&pg=PA247&lpg=PA247&dq=%22Anton+Teyber%22&source=web&ots=FElbKiXxfs&sig=ek723ecmGnstrokyGbF59Pg0a7c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result before working as a composer to (among others) the Dresden opera and Vienna court. He is notable for his two 'Concertos for Corni da Caccia'. He also performed alongside Mozart and Nikolaus Kraft
Nikolaus Kraft
Nikolaus Kraft was a Czech cellist and composer . He was the son of Antonín Kraft, under whom he first studied. He then trained under Jean-Louis Duport...

 in 1789 during Mozart's Berlin journey
Mozart's Berlin journey
One of the longest adulthood journeys of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a visit, beginning in Spring 1789, to a series of cities lying northward of his adopted home in Vienna: Prague, Leipzig, Dresden, and Berlin.-Departure:...

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His daughter was Elena Teyber
Elena Asachi
Elena Asachi, née Teyber, was a Romanian pianist, singer and composer of Austrian birth. She was the daughter of Austrian composer Anton Teyber and niece of concertmaster Franz Teyber....

 who was born in Vienna and became a professor at Iaşi Conservatory where she was known as a pianist and composer from 1827 to 1863. She married Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi
Gheorghe Asachi was a Moldavian-born Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation...

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