In the course of his studies he had composed several masses, motets, hymns, kyries,. magnificats, and other June, 1832. works in the church-style, which were occasionally performed at the chapel at Munich, so greatly to his reputation, that Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, the father of George I. of England, though a Protestant prince, being a passionate lover of music, invited him to the court of Hanover, conferred on him, it has been said, the appointment of master of his chapel *, and committed to his care the management of the Opera, an entertainment which had then but lately found its way into Germany.