High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Robert Mayer, CH, KCVO (June 5, 1879 – January 9, 1985) was a philanthropist, businessman, and a major supporter of music and young musicians. Mayer was born in Mannheim, Germany; his father was a brewer. From the age of 5 Mayer attended the Mannheim conservatoire, where, at the age of 11, he played a piano ballade by Brahms before the composer. He also studied under Felix Weingartner. His father however insisted that Mayer go into business. Initially he worked in the lace trade, and then, moving to London in 1896, became a banker, whilst continuing his piano studies with Fanny Davies and others. Mayer became a citizen of the United Kingdom in 1902, and joined the British army in the First World War.

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