Friedrich Rabenschlag

Friedrich Rabenschlag (2 July 1902 – 7 August 1973) was a German choral conductor.

Career Born in Herford, Rabenschlag studied German studies, art history, musicology and philosophy at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Cologne. He also studied piano, organ, and conducting of both choirs and orchestras at the Landeskonservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig. He was enthusiastic about the Wandervogel movement, and founded the Madrigal kreis Leipziger Studenten in 1926, while studying. It was merged in 1938 with the Heinrich-Schütz-Kantorei to form the Leipziger Universitätschor.