Johann Ernst Eberlin (Jettingen, March 27, 1702 - Salzburg, June 19/21 June 1762) was a German composer and organist whose work forms a bridge between baroque music and classical music. He was a very productive composer of mainly church orchestras and choir music.
His first musical studies started in 1712 at Jesuit's Jesuit School of Salvator in Augsburg. His teachers were Georg Egger and Balthasar Siberer (who taught him to play an organ). He visited the Benedictine University in Salzburg from 1721 to 1723 where he studied law. When he became Organist for Count Leopold von Firmian (Salzburg Archbishop) in 1727, this meant a breakthrough of his musical career. At the height of his career, he was organizer of Archbishop Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein.
Eberlin also composed and played occasion works for church concerts. His contemporaries were Leopold Mozart, which he probably also had as a student, and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser. Compositions
Eberlin wrote, among other things:
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