Thieriot, Ferdinand 04/07/1838 - 08/04/1919

Born in Hamburg, a German composer, teacher and cellist. He was friends with Johannes Brahms. He studied music at both Marxsen in Altona and Rheinberger in Munich. Afterwards, he was a music director in Hamburg and in 1867, the director in Leipzig. In 1870, he went to Graz, where he worked as an Artistic Director of the Phonetic Styrian Choral Society for 25 years.
Active as a composer, teacher and cellist in Leipzig and Hamburg.