Günter Wand, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German orchestra conductor
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Place of Birth: Elberfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Günter Wand
- Günter Wand (January 7, 1912, in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002, in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer.
- Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold.
- At the Cologne Conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner.
- He was a conducting pupil of Franz von Hoesslin in Munich, but was otherwise largely self-taught as a conductor.
- During his 65-year-long career as a conductor, he was particularly revered for his Schubert and Bruckner, and was honoured with many significant awards, including the German Record Award and the internationally important Diapason d'Or.
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