Wilhelm Killmayer
| Wilhelm Killmayer | |
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| Born | 21 August 1927 |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Organization | Hochschule für Musik und Theater München |
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Wilhelm Killmayer (born 21 August 1927 in Munich) is a German composer of classical music and an academic teacher at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.
Wilhelm Killmayer 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 are Max Beckschäfer, Sandeep Bhagwati, Lutz Landwehr von Pragenau, Rudi Spring and Laurence Traiger.
Killmayers first composition was Lorca-Romanzen after Federico García Lorca, premiered at the Donaueschingen Festival. In 1954 he composed a Missa brevis, which was recorded and reviewed:
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