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
BornAugust 21, 1927
Munich, Germany
DiedAugust 20, 2017(2017-08-20) (aged 89)
Education
  • Munich University
  • Staatliche Musikhochschule
OccupationComposer
OrganizationHochschule für Musik und Theater München
Awards
  • Villa Massimo
  • Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste
  • Hindemith Prize
  • Kaske Foundation Prize

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
  1. Schmerda, Susanne. "Konsequent gegen den Strom" (in German). BR. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  2. Marcus Stäbler (21 August 2002). "Von der Stille zum Melos / Der Komponist Wilhelm Killmayer und seine Musik" (in German). Neue Zürcher Zeitung. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  3. "Music: New Records, may 6, 1957". Time. 6 May 1957. Archived from the original on 19 October 2011. Retrieved 30 March 2011.
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