Wilhelm Killmayer

Wilhelm Killmayer

Born: August 21st, 1927
Country of origin: Germany

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Conductor: Christoph Altstaedt
February 19th, 2012 | Kunstmuseum - Stuttgart - Germany

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Conductor: Christoph Altstaedt
February 21st, 2012 | Theaterhaus - Stuttgart - Germany

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Chronology

1927
Born in Munich on 21 August, the son of the district senior teacher Wilhelm Killmayer who died in 1932
Spends his childhood in Mitterndorf near Dachau until 1932, lives in Munich from 1932
1933

Piano lessons

1934
Primary education at a “Volksschule”
1937
Secondary education at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich (= grammar school emphasing classical languages)
1945

Studies composition and conducting with H. W. von Waltershausen

1947
Final exams at the Munich grammar school after an interruption in his education due to the war
1949

Studies at the university, main subject: musicology (von Ficker,Riezler); subsidiary subjects: German studies, Italian
1951
State exams in conducting and composition
1951
Private lessons with Carl Orff
1953

Attends the master class of Carl Orff at the Staatliche Hochschule, Munich

1954

Prize of the Fromm Music Foundation, Chicago, for “Missa Brevis”

1955
Teacher of theory and counterpoint at the Trapp Conservatory in Munich
1957
Culture Prize of Munich
1958
First stay in Rome; Villa Massimo scholarship, Rome
1961
Marries Wendula Mirschel
1961
Ballet conductor at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich
1965
Prix Italia for “Une leçon de français”
1965
Second stay in Rome; Villa Massimo scholarship, Rome
1968

Moves to Frankfurt/Main

1970
Stay in Paris; scholarship of the Cité des Arts, Paris
1972
Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Art
1973
Professor of composition at Munich’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik
1974
Rostrum of Composers, Paris, for “Symphony No. 1”
1975

Übersiedlung nach München

1980

Member of the Berlin Academy of Art

1983

Birth of the twins Felix and Ferdinand

1989
Marries Martina Soll
1990

Birth of his daughter Susanna Caecilie

1993

Member of the Bavarian Maximilian Order of Science and Art

Wilhelm Killmayer lives in Munich and Frasdorf

 

2010
Prize of the Christoph und Stephan Kaske Foundation