Education
Born in Inzell, Bavaria, he moved to Salzburg, where he studied under Johann Ernst Eberlin.
Born in Inzell, Bavaria, he moved to Salzburg, where he studied under Johann Ernst Eberlin.
From 1750 he was organist at the Salzburg Cathedral, where he remained the rest of his life. After a visit to Italy in 1764-1765 he set Metastasio"s Louisiana Nitteti (his only opera) performed in Salzburg (1767), and in 1767 he collaborated with Mozart and Michael Haydn on the oratorio Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots. Mozart, who had a high regard for Adlgasser"s music, succeeded him as Organist at Salzburg Cathedral in 1777.
Adlgasser"s first marriage, in 1752, was to Maria Josepha, the daughter of his predecessor, J.E. Eberlin, at Salzburg Cathedral.
Leopold Mozart stood witness to the third wedding. He died at Salzburg in 1777 of a stroke suffered while playing the organization