Killmayer
| Wilhelm Killmayer | |
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| Born | 21 August 1927 Munich, Germany |
| Died | 20 August 2017 (aged 89) Starnberg, Germany |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Composer |
| Organization | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
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Wilhelm Killmayer (21 August 1927 – 20 August 2017) 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. He composed symphonies and song cycles on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl and Peter Härtling, among others.
Wilhelm Killmayer was born on August 21, 1927 in Munich, Germany. He studied conducting and composition from 1945 to 1951 in Munich at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen’s Musikseminar. At the same time, he was enrolled at the Munich University where he studied musicology with Rudolf von Ficker and Walter Riezler, and German studies. He was a private student of Carl Orff from 1951 and was admitted to his master class at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in 1953. He was a scholar at the Villa Massimo twice, in 1958 and 1965/66.
Killmayer was a teacher of music theory and counterpoint at the Trappsches Konservatorium in Munich from 1955. He was a conductor of the Bavarian State Opera's ballet from 1961 to 1964. From 1973 to 1992 he was a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik. Among his students were Ali N. Askin, Max Beckschäfer, Sandeep Bhagwati, Moritz Eggert,Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau, Fredrik Schwenk, Rudi Spring and Laurence Traiger.
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