Wilhelm Keilmann

Wilhelm Martin Keilmann (4 August 1908 – 14 November 1989) was a German pianist, Kapellmeister and composer. He composed 74 works, founded a chamber orchestra and was lecturer at the . Life Born in Würzburg, Keilmann received his first instructions in violin and piano playing from his father, Ferdinand Keilmann, a music teacher. He first studied at the Musikschule Aschaffenburg with director Hermann Kundigraber, Heinz Knettel and Valentin Härtl. After one semester at the Musikhochschule München he changed to the Konservatorium Würzburg, where he studied piano under Professor Heinz Knettel, violin and viola under Willy Schaller and conducting as well as composing under privy councillor Hermann Zilcher. Wilhelm Keilmann passed the Staatsexamen with distinction in all four subjects on July 13, 1937, and his commissioned work “Hymne an die Schönheit” after Christian Morgenstern for soprano, choir and orchestra (op. 4) was premiered by Tilla Briem and the Munich Philharmonic on July 15, 1937, in Bad Kissingen. After a year as Kapellmeister at the Mainz City Theatre he married the violinist Hertha Bulle (10 August 1916) and moved with her in 1939 at the outbreak of war as a music teacher