Freihaustheater
He relocated to Vienna in 1785 and studied under Albrechtsberger and Joseph Haydn. Later in the 1780s, he became organist at the Carmelite church in Leopoldstadt. He collaborated with Emanuel Schikaneder on a number of "Singspiele" in the 1790s, working in the Theater auf der Wieden. He died, aged 74, in Fünfkirchen (), southern Royal Hungary, Imperial Austria.