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Musician / Composer
Georg Max Trexler (1903, Pirna – 1979, Leipzig) was a German composer.Originally a student of economics at the University of Leipzig, he switched to music under the influence of Karl Straube, and became a choirmaster and organist at the St. Trinitatis church in Leipzig in 1930, continuing his work there for forty years.He started teaching organ and conducting at the conservatory in 1935; he was drafted as a soldier in 1940, and ended the war as an US prisoner of war, before returning to Leipzig and the university.