Friedemann Layer

Friedemann Layer (30 October 1941 – 3 November 2019) was an Austrian conductor. He was assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Ulm and to Karl Böhm. In 1989, he conducted a film version of Der Schauspieldirektor, with Zdzisława Donat and Christian Boesch in the cast.

Layer was chief conductor of the Opéra national de Montpellier from 1994 to 2007.

Selected discography

Henze - Symphony No 10; 4 Poemi; La Selva Incantata. Montpellier National Orchestra
Mieczysław Karłowicz - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra
Alfano - Risurrezione Accord
Offenbach - Die Rheinnixen Accord
Respighi - La campana sommersa Accord
Lidarti - Esther oratorio in Hebrew. Accord.
Ponchielli - Marion Delorme Accord
Zoltán Kodály - Háry János sung in Hungarian, with French narration by Gérard Depardieu. Accord
Cilea - L'arlesiana Accord
Antoine Mariotte - Salomé Accord

References

1 2 "Death of an Austrian Maestro, 78". slippeddisc. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
↑ "Dirigent Friedemann Layer gestorben". magazin.klassik.com (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2019.
↑ "Bio". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2010-12-03.

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[sd-1] 1 2 "Death of an Austrian Maestro, 78". slippeddisc. Retrieved 5 November 2019.

[2] "Dirigent Friedemann Layer gestorben". magazin.klassik.com (in German). Retrieved 6 November 2019.

[3] "Bio". Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2010-12-03.

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