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

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