Wilhelm Killmayer

Wilhelm Killmayer
Three-quarter profile, outdoor shot of a bearded and bespectacled man, with strong features and almost-shoulder-length greying hair, in casual dress
Wilhelm Killmayer, in the 1980s
Born21 August 1927
Munich, Germany
Died20 August 2017(2017-08-20) (aged 89)
Starnberg, Germany
Education
OccupationComposer
OrganizationHochschule für Musik und Theater München
Awards

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. He composed symphonies and song cycles on poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, Joseph von Eichendorff, Georg Trakl and Peter Härtling, among others.

  1. ^ Schmerda, Susanne. "Konsequent gegen den Strom" (in German). BR. Retrieved 21 August 2017.