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Wilhelm Killmayer

German composer and academic (1927-2017) · Germany · On the map · Musicians · Died at 89

Wilhelm Killmayer 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.

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Awards

Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art1993
Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo
Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

About this person

Country
Germany
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1927 to 2017 · aged 89

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