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Gerhard Wimberger

Gerhard Wimberger (30 August 1923 – 12 October 2016) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Career Wimberger studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His teachers were Cesar Bresgen and Johann Nepomuk

Gerhard Wimberger (30 August 1923 – 12 October 2016) was an Austrian composer and conductor. Career Wimberger studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. His teachers were Cesar Bresgen and Johann Nepomuk David for composition, and Clemens Krauss and Bernhard Paumgartner for conducting. After World War II, in which he served in the army, he worked as vocal coach at the Vienna Volksoper, then as conductor at the Landestheater in Salzburg, before becoming a teacher for conducting and composition at the Mozarteum. Among his many pupils were Klaus Ager, Sergio Cárdenas, Dieter Lehnhoff, and Gerd Kühr. Wimberger also served as member of the directory of the Salzburg Festival, and as president of the Austrian Composers’ Association AKM. He died in October 2016 at the age of 93. A memorial concert was held in his honor at the Mozarteum in January 2017. Scenic works *Heinrich und Kleist, Scenes for Music Theatre (2004), chamber opera (2011 ) *Wolf Dietrich Prince of Salzburg (1985/87), scenic chronicles *Paradou (1981/58), opera after Émile Zola *The Golden Shoes (1983), ballet music for television *Jedermann (1983), incidental music *Rules of Life (1970/73), scenic music *Helen the Victim (1967

Era
Post-War
Lived
1923–2016
From
Austria
Born in
Vienna · died Salzburg
Known as
composer, university teacher, conductor
Genres
opera

Contemporaries

Composers of the same nationality whose working lives overlapped — computed across all 11,984 dated composers in this library, not taken from any single article.