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Franz Limmer was the only son of a businessman who owned a silk mill in Vienna. His father originally meant for him to take over the business, but as Franz was more interested in music than anything else, he was permitted to choose a musical career. From age 10 he studied the violin and guitar with
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blowing military trumpets on 17 July 1842 on the occasion of the laying of the first brick for a new infantry barracks. Also in less experimental performances he liked to set church music to an accompaniment by winds.
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in this period among many other works. A year later he was appointed choir director of the Timișoara
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Requiem in B major (1842), a complete manuscript found in
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Most of Limmer's unpublished compositions are lost. But some of them were recovered in different archives of
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for tenor and bass soli, 3-part male chorus, 2 horns, 2 violins, bass and organ continuo (1852), for all
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in A major for soprano or tenor with violin solo, orchestra and organ (Vienna: Diabelli, 1844)
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before he was 18. This drew attention to him as a composer, and a productive period followed.
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