Wilhelm Killmayer
Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017)[1] was a German composer of classical music, a conductor and an academic teacher of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1973 to 1992.
Wilhelm Killmayer | |
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| Born | August 21, 1927 |
| Died | August 20, 2017 (aged 89) |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Organization | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
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He composed symphonies and song cycles on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl and Peter Härtling, among others.
Killmayers first composition was Lorca-Romanzen after Federico García Lorca, premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival.[2] In 1954 he composed a Missa brevis, which was recorded and reviewed:
Young (29) Munich-born Composer Wilhelm Killmayer's Missa Brevis ripples with exciting, shifting rhythms and rises skillfully to a colorful series of blasting choral climaxes occasionally more reminiscent of the bandstand than the choir.[3]
References
- ↑ Schmerda, Susanne. "Konsequent gegen den Strom" (in Deutsch). BR. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
- ↑ Marcus Stäbler (21 August 2002). "Von der Stille zum Melos / Der Komponist Wilhelm Killmayer und seine Musik" (in Deutsch). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
- ↑ "Music: New Records, may 6, 1957". Time. 6 May 1957. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011.