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Siegfried Kohler
(July 30,
1923
in
Freiburg im Breisgau
? September 12,
2017
in
Wiesbaden
)
[1]
was a German conductor and composer of classical music. He worked as general music director of opera houses such as
Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden
and the
Royal Swedish Opera
. He conducted premieres of works by
Hans Werner Henze
and
Volker David Kirchner
, among others, and revived rarely performed operas. He also composed music for the stage and taught at universities of music in Cologne and
Saarbrucken
.
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