Coelestin Hochbrucker

Coelestin Franz Christian Hochbrucker (Tagmersheim, near Donauwörth, 1727 – Vienna, 1805) was a German organist, composer and harpist, and the nephew of Simon Hochbrucker. His career belongs to the ecclesiastical musical world of eighteenth-century Bavaria.

Ordained a priest in 1752, he spent his life in Munich and at the Benedictine abbey of Weihenstephan, near Freising. Apparently almost all of his output has been lost. The works that are recorded include the biblical drama Die Juden in der Gefangenschaft des Manassa, performed by students in Freising in 1774, and six sonatas for harp, Op. 1, published in Paris around 1771, as well as several masses and other sacred works.