Franz Abt
Composer
1819 – 1885
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Who was Franz Abt?
Franz Wilhelm Abt was a German composer and choral conductor. He composed roughly 3,000 individual works mostly in the area of vocal music. Several of his songs were at one time universally sung, and have obtained a more or less permanent place in the popular repertory. During his lifetime, Abt was a renowned choral conductor and he spent much of the last three decades of his life working as a guest conductor with choirs throughout Europe and in the United States.
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- Born
- Dec 22, 1819
Eilenburg - Also known as
- Franz Abt
- Abt, Franz
- Franz Wilhelm Abt
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Thomasschule zu Leipzig
- Leipzig University
- Lived in
- Saxony
- Died
- Mar 31, 1885
Wiesbaden
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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