Rieder, Ambros 10/10/1771 - 11/19/1855

Ambros Rieder received basic music lessons from his father who was a school teacher in Döbling near Vienna. In addition, Thomas Rieder who conducted choral music in Wilfersdorf and was his grandfather provided him singing, violin and piano lessons. He received lessons in basso continuo and composition from Karl Martinides who was the choirmaster in Lichtental. Already at the age of 13 he composed a mass. He became a pupil of the cathedral kapellmeister of St. Stephan (Stephansdom in Vienna), Leopold Hofmann and Johann Georg Albrechtsberger. He perfected himself by studying the works of Johann Philipp Kirnberger, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg and Johann Joseph Fux. He played the violin in the ''Viennese Augarten Concertos'' and the viola in the ''Schuppanzigh Quartet''. He was personally acquainted with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Nepomuk Hummel. He was also friends with Ferdinand Schubert (Franz Schubert's brother) and Simon Sechter. Ambros Rieder worked from 1797 as a school teacher in Döbling and from 1802 until his death as a school teacher, organist and choir director in Perchtoldsdorf.