von Weinzierl, Max (Ritter) 09/16/1841 - 07/10/1898

Max Ritter von Weinzierl (* September 16, 1841 in Bergstadt, Bohemia; † July 10, 1898 in Mödling) was an Austrian composer, theatre bandmaster and choral conductor.

He attended grammar school in Prague, where he received his first music lessons and from 1858 to 1860 was an intern on a Schwarzenberg family estate. He then graduated from the ''Piaristengymnasium'' in Vienna and studied cello and piano at the ''Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music'' in Vienna from 1860 to 1864. In addition, Weinzierl worked as a private teacher and in 1868 he increasingly appeared as a choral conductor of Viennese male choral societies. Around 1881 he was also ''Gauchormeister'' of the ''Freie Gauverband Wien'' (Vienna). Also as Kapellmeister at the ''Wiener Ring-Theater''. From 1884 to 1892 he was artistic director of the ''Wiener Singakademie''. From 1893 to 1898 Kapellmeister and director of the Chorelevenschule at the Raimundtheater.

He was buried in a grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (32A-50). In 1906 the ''Weinzierlgasse'' in Vienna's 14th district of Penzing was named after him.

Source: Wikipedia

Note: Translated from the German version of Wikipedia into English.