Max Pommer is a German conductor and musicologist born on February 9, 1936, in Leipzig. He studied the piano and conducting at the Musikhochschule Leipzig and earned a doctorate in musicology from the University of Leipzig in 1968. Pommer began his career as a choir assistant to Hans Sandig and completed an orchestral internship under Herbert Kegel. He served as the director of the Leipziger Universitätschor from 1973 to 1987 and founded the ensemble Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum in 1979. Pommer served as the general music director of the MDR Sinfonieorchester between 1987 and 1991. He served as a professor for orchestererziehung and conducting at the Saar University of Music until 2005. His recording career included orchesterwerke by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach and the composer Claude Debussy for the label Capriccio. Pommer received the Kunstpreis der DDR in 1979 and the Biermann-Ratjen-Medaille in 2011.
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Debussy, La mer
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Händel: Doppelchörige Orchesterkonzerte
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Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht / 2. Kammersinfonie
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Weimarer Klassik, Vol. 3
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| Handel Edition, Vol. 1 |
| Weimarer Klassik, Vol. 1 |
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Weimarer Klassik, Vol. 2
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| Shumann: Symphony No. 4 - J. Strauss II: Kaiser - Walzer - R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra |
| J. S. Bach Vier Ouverturen (Orchestersuiten) |
| Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B-Flat Major Op. 52 ''Lobgesang'' |
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Handel: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 9-12
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| Bach: Solo Concertos, Vol. 1 |
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Handel: Concerti grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1-4
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| Bach: Solo Concertos, Vol. 2 |
| Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos |