Friedemann Layer

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Friedemann Layer (born October 30, 1941 in Vienna ; † November 3, 2019 in Potsdam ) was an Austrian conductor .

Career

He studied in Vienna at the Academy for Music and Performing Arts , including with Hans Swarowsky . His first engagement as an opera conductor took him to Ulm . Then he was assistant to Herbert von Karajan and Karl Böhm and at the same time director of studies at the Salzburg Festival . In 1974 Layer was hired as 1st Kapellmeister at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf and from 1987 to 1990 he was the first opera and general music director in Mannheim . From 1994 to 2007 he directed the Orchester National and the Opéra National de Montpellier , which also made him internationally known through his Festival de Radio France et Montpellier. With this orchestra he also made a number of CDs of complete opera recordings, concerts and symphonies. From autumn 2007 to 2009 he was again general music director in Mannheim and thus the first conductor to take on this task a second time.

As a guest conductor he worked at opera houses in Paris, Brussels, Basel and Geneva, but also in Berlin and Dresden. His concert and opera repertoire showed no commitment to style. He has also conducted lesser-known works and premiered contemporary music.

Friedemann Layer lived alternately in Berlin and southern France.

Discography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-kultur-trauer-um-ehemaligem-generalmusikdirektor-layer-_arid,1547086.html
personal data
SURNAME Layer, Friedemann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian conductor
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2019
Place of death Potsdam