Mayer Ambros, Franz

Franz Meyer-Ambros ( German: Franz Meyer-Ambros ; May 17, 1882 , Leipzig - May 2, 1957 , Leipzig ) - German composer and choral conductor.

He graduated from the Leipzig Conservatory , a student of Max Reger . He led various Leipzig choirs, including the Sängerlust choir (throughout the 1920s) and the Leipzig Singing Academy (since 1937; however, the activities of the academy during the Second World War were mainly led by Hans Stieber , who officially led collective in 1942).

He made his debut as a composer in 1913, “Four Male Choirs in a Folk Spirit” ( German: Vier Männerchöre im Volkston ), which provoked sympathetic feedback from Max Unger in the New Musical Newspaper ^[1] . Most of the works of Mayer-Abros are intended for the choir, he also owns a concert for two pianos with an orchestra (1929). In addition, Mayer-Ambros was one of the co-authors of the school anthology of male choirs edited by R. Salzbrenner (1935).