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Beer

Leopold Josef Beer (1885–1956) was an Austrian composer and organist from Klement in Lower Austria, trained at the teacher training college in St. Pölten and the Kaiser Music School; his teachers included the soprano Amalie Materna, who had created the roles of Brünnhilde and Kundry at the first Bayreuth productions of the Ring and Parsifal. From 1906 to 1916 he served as organist at the Minoritenkirche in Vienna, and in 1912 founded his own music school; he also taught singing at Viennese secondary schools between 1920 and 1929. His working life was spent in the thick of Viennese musical education at a particularly eventful period for the city.

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