Keller, Max 10/07/1770 - 12/16/1855

Max Keller was a German composer and organist. Beginning around 1780 he was a choirboy in the Benedictine monastery of Seeon where he also received his scientific and musical education. There he became organist in 1788. At the same time he was a student of Michael Haydn in Salzburg. In 1799 he went to Burghausen as organist and in 1801 to Altötting as electoral Kapellorganist where he remained until his retirement in 1851.