A talented organist and Catholic priest Oehlschlägel was born in the Czech town of Lahošť. Educated by the Jesuits at Mariaschein he entered the Premonstratensian monastery at Strahov, though it seems his motivation was as much to improve his musical education as it was devoting himself to the service of his God.
When given the rectorship at the Metropolitan and St. Nicholas Church in Prague he discovered the organ was a wreck. So over the next 15 years he painstakingly rebuilt it. When he died in 1788 following a long illness he left behind an organ considered one of the finest in the region.
His religious duties were not so onerous as to stop his composing. He produced mostly choral works, seven oratorios, numerous motets and religious pieces, an opera and two masses.
His pastoral mass is a substantial work, full of fine vocal parts (done full by the recording below) trumpets and a real sense of being uplifted.
Uplifting & fabulous. Done of the harmonies are gorgeous. I shall definitely be listening to this again.
Or Premonstratensian even!