Johannes Matthias Sperger was an Austrian composer and double bassist. Sperger has composed a considerable quantity of orchestral music, including some 45 symphonies and many concertos, including 18 for a dual bass. These compositions are in the period's current style. Sperger was born in Feldberg and trained from 1767 in Vienna as a contrabassist and composer. He worked from 1777 in the Hofkapelle of the Archbishop of Pressburg.