The Ducal band of Meiningen also possessed a good violoncellist. It was J. J. KRIEGCK, originally violinist and member of the Flemish Opera at Amsterdam. During his residence in Paris he took up the violoncello, and received there instruction from the younger Duport. After he had studied for awhile under this artist he was engaged by Prince Laval Montmorency, in whose service he remained four years, when he was summoned to Meiningen. There he worked and was still living in the year 1810. Kriegck was born on June 25, 1750, at Bibra, in the neighbourhood of Eckertsberga, in the district of Merseburg. His cello compositions, consisting of three Concertos and some Sonatas with bass, are among the best of that period. The violoncellist HIZELBERGER was, in 1786, in the service of the Bishop of Würzburg as chamber musician. At the Court of Wallenstein, about 1790, PAUL WINNEBERGER was engaged as Director of the Royal Hunt and Table Music. In the year 1800 he exchanged this post for that of cellist and composer to the French Theatre at Hamburg. In the Thurn-and-Taxis Kapelle at Regensburg were two cellists, GRETSCH and KARAUSCHEK. The first was there until his death, which occurred in 1784. Karauschek, on the contrary, who was famous as an excellent cellist, only belonged to it from 1750-1760. Religious fanaticism caused him later to go into a Carmelite cloister. He died in 1789. To the Munich Court music, in the second half of the last century, belonged VIRGILI.[79] He is remarkable as having given his first instruction to the violoncellist MORALT. This last artist, who was born in the Bavarian capital in 1780, and died in 1829, finished his training under the violoncellist ANTON SCHWARZ, of Mannheim, and, having completed his studies, went into the Hofkapelle of his native city.