Wilhelm Killmayer

Wilhelm Killmayer (1927-2017) was a German composer, conductor and teacher, born in Munich. A private student and later master-class pupil of Carl Orff, he wrote symphonies, stage works, sacred music and a large body of songs, and taught composition at the Munich Hochschule für Musik from 1973 to 1992. Killmayer studied conducting and composition at Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen's seminar in Munich (1945-1951) and musicology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität. His Missa brevis (1954) won a Fromm Music Foundation Award.