Benedikt Geisler was born in Dettelbach in 1696 and baptized Caspar. From 1717 he was enrolled at the Würzburg University. In the same year Wolfgang Händler became court organist, a native of Nuremberg and a student of Pachelbel, and later also Kapellmeister. He comes into question as Geisler’s teacher, because his solid compositions and his organ playing speak for this excellent organ and composition teacher. In 1720 Geisler entered the Augustinian canons of Triefenstein
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