Editing Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (section)

==Music==
Like his father, Leopold was a patron of music and a composer himself.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dalberg-Acton, John Emerich Edward |title=The Cambridge Modern History: Volume V: The Age of Louis XIV |publisher=New York: The MacMillan Company |year=1912 |page=341 |display-authors=etal}}</ref> He continued to enrich the court's musical life by employing and providing support for distinguished composers such as [[Antonio Bertali]], [[Giovanni Bononcini]], [[Johann Kaspar Kerll]], [[Ferdinand Tobias Richter]], [[Alessandro Poglietti]], and [[Johann Fux]]. Leopold's surviving works show the influence of Bertali and Viennese composers in general (in oratorios and other dramatic works), and of [[Johann Heinrich Schmelzer]] (in ballets and German comedies). His sacred music is perhaps his most successful, particularly ''Missa angeli custodis'', a [[Music for the Requiem Mass|Requiem Mass]] for his first wife, and ''Three Lections'', composed for the burial of his second wife.<ref>{{Cite Grove |last=Schnitzler |first=Rudolf |last2=Seifert |first2=Herbert |title=Leopold I|name-list-style=amp}}</ref> Much of Leopold's music was published with works by his father, and described as "works of exceeding high merit."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=(organization), Jstor |year=1892 |title=Musical times |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xukEAAAAMAAJ&q=Leopold+I+Music&pg=PA400 |format=PDF |journal=[[The Musical Times]] |volume=1892 |access-date=2009-03-16}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Adler, Guido |title=Musikalishe Werke der Kaiser Ferdinand III., Leopold I., and Joseph I. |publisher=Vienna, Austria: Antaria & Company |year=1892}}</ref>