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Caspar Franz Stary
18th centuryaustrian
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Caspar Franz Stary (also reported as Stray; 1732–1777) was an Austrian clerical composer and organist born in Freidorf an der Laßnitz (Styria) and active in Vienna, where he died in 1777. Bibliographic catalogues describe him as a Franciscan priest, working as a composer and organist within the Viennese ecclesiastical milieu. His surviving musical footprint is centred on organ music: modern library records and anthologies of Viennese repertory around the mid-18th century transmit several preludes and fugues in church tones under his name, typically headed “P. Caspar Franz Stary.” In contemporary performance life, his music appears sporadically on recordings devoted to Austrian and Viennese baroque organ repertory, confirming a modest but persistent afterlife in the modern organ canon. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.