Franz Mair

Franz Mair (15 March 1821 – 30 November 1893) was an Austrian composer and choral conductor, and founder of the Wiener Schubertbund, a choir that still exists today.

Mair was born in Weikendorf in northeast Austria in 1821, son of a teacher.

[1][2] In 1863 he founded in Vienna the Lehrersängerchor Schubertbund ("the teachers' choral Schubert society").

It was originally affiliated to a teachers' association, to which its 86 founding members belonged.

In 1870 the choir left the teachers' association, and was renamed Schubertbund.