The Bishop of Olmütz was not pleased by this turn of events, and Biber later tried to atone for his insult by composing new music and sending it to the bishop. He made his way to Salzburg in western Austria, a city rich in church music where Mozart later was born and began his career, and his talents quickly won him a place in the archbishop's orchestra. When the bishop sent him on a trip in 1670 to purchase new violins for his orchestra, Biber quietly left town. Even in his early 20s, Biber was a compelling violin performer who gained friends and influence around Bohemia, and he soon decided he was destined for bigger things. His birthplace was part of an estate owned by the brother of the powerful Bishop of Olmütz, and after he did a brief stint as a musician in the employ of a prince in Graz, Austria, a violinist friend, the Czech-born performer Pavel Vejvanovsky, arranged a job for Biber in the bishop's musical retinue. Little is known of his background and early life. He may have taken music lessons with a local organist and received a basic education in a Jesuit school. Skipped Out on Instrument-Buying Tripīiber was born around Augin Wartenberg, Bohemia, a German-speaking region near what is now the Czech city of Liberec.
In later years he redirected his compositional efforts from violin music to the more sumptuous genres of opera and choral music, but many of his later works have unfortunately been lost.
Working his way up from modest origins-a composer during this period was often considered no more than a servant of a powerful family or ecclesiastical authority-Biber gained renown as deputy music director and later music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg, Maximilian Gandolph von Khuenburg. Living and working in Austria and in German-speaking Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) in the late 1600s, Biber (pronounced BEE-ber) employed unusual and arcane violin techniques such as scordatura (retuning the violin's strings) to produce sounds from the instrument that no other composer has called for, before or since. A highly talented violinist himself, he wrote difficult music that continues to challenge violinists today, and his music for other instruments was equally original. His music increased sharply in popularity between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. Composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644–1704) wrote some of the most imaginative music of the Baroque era in Germany.
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