Rudolf Mauersberger

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From 1909 to 1912 he did his military service and worked as an assistant teacher. He studied from 1912 to 1914 and 1918/19 at the Conservatory in Leipzig . His teachers there were Robert Teichmüller (piano), Karl Straube (organ), Stephan Krehl (theory) and Hans Sitt (orchestral conducting). In 1914 he won the Nikisch Prize for Composition. In the war years 1915 to 1918 he was a soldier and military music director in Bad Lausick near Leipzig. After the war, he went in 1919 for six years as cantor and organist and director of the Aachen Bach Society at the Anna Churchin Aachen and to the Aachen City Concert Hall . In 1925 he became the first country church music warden of the Protestant Church of Thuringia and cantor at Bach Baptistery of St. George in Eisenach , where he the Bach Choir Eisenach and a boys' choir, the George choir , founded.