Robert (Johann Nepomuk) Führer -also: Fuehrer- (02/06/1807 - 28/11/1861), a Czech organist and composer, Prague (Bohemia). Ten-year-old Robert became a choirboy at St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague under the direction of cathedral conductor Jan August Vitásek, his godfather. He attended the humanitarian school and also received lessons in composition and organ playing from Vitásek. After temporarily deputizing for the cathedral organists, he became second cathedral organist in 1826 and also had to teach the choir boys and stand in for the cathedral conductor. In 1830 he became organist in the Strahov Premonstratensian monastery and on January 11, 1831 first organist at St. Vitus Cathedral. From 1830 he was also a teacher at the newly founded organ school. After Vitásek's death on December 7, 1839, Führer became cathedral conductor on December 21, 1839.