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Almost the entire interior sculptural decoration of the Buda St. Florian's Chapel was made by Weber between the 1760s and 1770s. On 20 June 1761 he was paid 86 forints for the sculptural decorations of the chapel's organ. In the 1920s the chapel was rebuilt twice, and its furnishing was dispersed. The sculptural ensemble of the organ, the white painted figures of King David playing the harp, two angels with trumpets, one with drums and several putti, came to the Fővárosi Múzeum (Budapest, Történeti Múzeum).
The angel, with an adolescent body and curly hair, playing his trumpet with a puffed out face, is modelled in "contrapposto", with exact anatomy. His clothing consist of a light drapery fixed with a ribbon at his left shoulder. The drapery's abstract decorative shaping was a Rococo stylistic feature of southern German origins, but around 1760 it was already a widespread motif, used also by the sculptors of Pest and Buda, which carried over, via the art of Lipót Antal Conti, Antal Eberhard and József Hebenstreit, even to Neo-Classicism.
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