Stadlmair, Hans
Stadlmair, Hans
Stadlmair, Hans, Austrian conductor and composer; b. Neuhofen an der Krems, May 3, 1929. He received his musical training in Linz and Vienna; eventually settled in Munich. In 1956 he founded the Munich Chamber Orch., with which he traveled on numerous tours in Europe, the U.S., South America, Africa, and Asia. He served as its music director until 1995. As a composer, he wrote mostly instrumental works, in a neo-Baroque manner, among them a Toccata for Strings and Harpsichord (1966), a Trumpet Concerto with Strings (1967), and Sinfonia serena for Strings (1970); he also wrote some choral pieces.
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