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elations with Stoll after the death of Mozart, writing his own setting of Ave verum corpus<br />

SmWV 121 for Baden in 1792, and addressing two letters to the choirmaster in 1802-3. 158<br />

The vocal forces available to the choirmaster were modest and entirely characteristic<br />

of parish choirs at the time. In addition to the sexton and the assistant teacher, both of<br />

whom were expected to be musical, Stoll could call on two choirboys, an Altist and a<br />

Diskantist. The instrumental forces consisted of the town’s Türmer, 159 Franz Kicker (1734-<br />

1805), and four apprentices. Stoll was responsible for the storage and maintenance of the<br />

instruments; in 1793 he acquired two violins at 6fl each and a higher-quality instrument at<br />

9-10fl “auf das Chor der Pfarrkürchen.” The church’s organ was originally built in 1744 for<br />

the Augustinian monastery of St. Dorothea in Vienna by Johann Hencke (1698-1766). With<br />

the closure of the monastery, the organ was moved to Baden in 1787 and installed at St.<br />

Stephen’s by the Viennese builders Johann and Josef Wiest. The town council had originally<br />

commissioned an entirely new organ from Franz Xaver Chrismann in 1782, but the project<br />

was abandoned due to financial disputes. 160 The disposition is not known, but the original<br />

case and a number of the pipes are still extant.<br />

In return for his services, Stoll received an annual honorarium of 271 gulden and a<br />

four-room house at Schulgebäude Baden Nr. 3, today Pfarrgasse 16. In addition, Stoll<br />

received extra payments for the music he provided at the Pfarrkirche. In 1774, he was paid<br />

41fl 12xr for a daily musical setting of the Litany, 34fl 48xr for Stiftsämter that were<br />

supplementary to the usual Sunday services, and 6fl for two processions on Corpus Christi<br />

158 Originals in A-Wst; partially edited in Lorenz, “Süssmayr und die Lichterputzer.”<br />

159 The term literally means someone who is responsible for spotting fires and giving advance warning of<br />

approaching enemies from a watchtower; by this time, however, the post was effectively equivalent to “town<br />

musician.”<br />

160 Rudolf Maurer, Festschrift zur Orgelweihe: Pfarrkirche Baden St. Stephan (Baden: Pfarre St. Stephan, 1987),<br />

Karl Schütz, Der Wiener Orgelbau in der Zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, vol. 35, Dissertationen der<br />

Universität Wien (Vienna: Verlag Notring, 1969), 8-9.<br />

306

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