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The eleven Mödlinger Tänze, WoO 17, were apparently written in 1819, although some have doubted their authenticity. Beethoven's assistant and biographer Schindler tells how the composer had retired to the country, to Mödling, where he was occupied in the composition of the Missa Solemnis, for his patron and pupil, Archduke Rudolph. In answer to a request from a group of seven local musicians at the Gasthof "Zu den drei Raben" in the neighbouring village of Brühl, he is said to have written a set of eleven dances. Dance music for balls in Vienna was provided by composers of great contemporary distinction. In 1792 Haydn wrote a set of dances for the Artists' Pension Society Ball, followed in 1793 by the composer and publisher Leopold Kozeluch. In 1794 Dittersdorf and Mozart's friend Eybler wrote sets of dances for the ball, and in 1795 Beethoven provided a set of twelve German dances for the same annual occasion. These sets of dances were intended for the smaller of the ball-rooms available, while the principal ball-room used music written for the occasion by Mozart's pupil Süssmayr. The "Ländler" is a folk dance in 3/4 time which was popular in Austria, Bavaria, German Switzerland, and Slovenia at the end of the 18th century. The Consortium Classicum is a German chamber orchestra. In the early 1960s the clarinetist Dieter Klöcker founded the Consortium Classicum, a German chamber music ensemble to bring back to life rediscovered musical works. These works use only wind instruments as well as the combination of woodwinds and strings, up to nine players. The members of the ensemble are all soloists, professors from music academies and leaders from first class orchestras, who uphold the ensemble's concept in a very individual and consistent manner.