{{Short description|Israeli composer and conductor}} {{more citations needed|date=February 2009}} {{Infobox musical artist | image = Amos Meller portrait.jpg | birth_place = Ein HaHoresh, Mandatory Palestine | birth_date = 1938 | death_place = Tel Aviv, Israel | death_date = {{Death date and given age|2007|7|23|69}} }}
'''Amos Meller''' ({{Langx|he|עמוס מלר}}; 1938 – January 23, 2007) is best remembered as an Israeli composer<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |url=https://en.e-mago.co.il/news/250_/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110721135148/http://en.e-mago.co.il/news/250_/ |archive-date= July 21, 2011 |access-date=3 June 2010 |website=en.e-mago.co.il|title=The last score of Amos Meller|last=Hakak|first=Balfour}}</ref> and conductor.
== Life == He was born in Kibbutz Ein HaHoresh, which his father, Mordechai Meller, was a founder of.<ref name=":0" />
In his lifetime, he was a member of the Israeli volleyball team, a flutist, a violinist, and a poet.
During his career he led orchestras in China, Moscow, and France. In March 2003 he was asked to direct the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra and also the Taipei Philharmonic Orchestra of Taiwan. He was the first Israeli to direct these orchestras.
Meller died at age 69 from heart failure<ref name=":0" /> in Tel Aviv.
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