Franz Xaver Gebel

{{Short description|German composer, music teacher, and conductor}}

Franz Xaver Gebel (1787 – 3 May 1843) was a German composer, music teacher, and conductor.

Gebel was born in Fürstenau, near Breslau, Silesia. He studied under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Abbé Vogler, and became Kapellmeister at Leopoldstadt in Vienna in 1810, then worked at a succession of theatres in Pest and Lemberg.{{cite encyclopedia | title = Gebel, Franz Xaver | encyclopedia = Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians | editor = Theodore Baker and Alfred Remy | edition = 3rd | year = 1919 | page = 301 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=H2kNAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA301}}

He moved to Moscow in 1817, where he would remain until his death in 1843. He taught piano, and became a significant figure in Moscow's musical life, teaching notable figures such as Nikolai Rubinstein and Alexander Villoing,{{cite book | author = Philip S. Taylor | title = Anton Rubinstein: A Life in Music | publisher = Indiana University Press | year = 2007 | isbn = 978-0-253-34871-5 | page = [https://archive.org/details/antonrubinsteinl00tayl/page/15 15] | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/antonrubinsteinl00tayl/page/15 }} and organizing string quartet performances from 1829 to 1835.{{cite book | author = Tully Potter | chapter = From chamber to concert hall | title = The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet | series = Cambridge Companions to Music | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 2003 | isbn = 0-521-00042-4 | page = 54}}

He wrote operas, a mass, four symphonies, overtures, string quintets and quartets, and many piano pieces, among other works.