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Hans Walter Kämpfel

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'''Hans Walter Kämpfel''' (22 June 1924 – 22 April 2016) was a German conductor, componist as well as [[Generalmusikdirektor]] in [[Aachen]] and [[Bremen]].

== Life and career ==
Kämpfel was born in near [[Ingolstadt]]. After passing his [[Abitur]] in 1942 at the [[Wilhelmsgymnasium München]]<ref>Annual Report of the Wilhelmsgymnasium München 1941/42</ref>, Kämpfel studied at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Munich, now the [[Hochschule für Musik und Theater München]], with [[Hans Rosbaud]], [[Joseph Haas]] and Rosl Schmid, among others. He then began his musical career in 1947 as [[répétiteur]] at the [[Bavarian State Opera]]. At the same time, he worked for [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]] in the concert series ''Musica Viva'' of the [[Bayerischer Rundfunk]], which aimed at the performance and dissemination of [[Neue Musik]] in Germany.

He then spent several years as [[Kapellmeister]] at the [[Musiktheater im Revier|Stadtischen Bühnen Gelsenkirchen]] and [[Städtische Bühnen Augsburg|Augsburg]] and as head of opera at the [[Zürich Opera House]] before he was called to Aachen in 1958, where he took up the post of General Music Director at the [[Theater Aachen]] there, succeeding [[Wolfgang Sawallisch]]. On 1 September 1961 he finally moved to the [[Bremer Philharmoniker]] in the same function, where he remained until 1968.

After a period filled with various guest contracts, Kämpfel took over as chief conductor of the symphony orchestra of the [[Zorneding]]-[[Baldham]] cultural association in [[Upper Bavaria]] from 1974 to 2004. In 1990, he founded the ''Bavarian Classics'', a classical 40-piece orchestra with long-time experienced musicians of the symphony orchestra of the cultural association Zorneding. Depending on the programme, he strengthened this orchestra with soloists and renowned guest musicians. With the Bavarian Classics he made numerous guest appearances in Munich, Frankfurt, Geneva, Graz and Shanghai. With a [[chamber music]] formation of this orchestra, Kämpfel was a guest in 1995 in the ancient theatre and archaeological museum in [[Bodrum]]/Turkey and in the Seagarden in [[Antalya]] as well as in the [[Ankara Opera House]]. From 2004 on, he retired from all functions due to age, but kept the direction of the serenade concerts.<ref>[https://ift.tt/396l7Mn GMD Hans Walter Kämpfel] on .orchester-zorneding.de</ref>

Throughout his career, Kämpfel has repeatedly received guest contracts at the renowned opera houses in Bochum, Zurich, Graz, Barcelona, Lisbon, and at the Teatro [[La Fenice]] Venice, [[Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi]] Trieste, [[Teatro San Carlo]] Naples. He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the [[Berlin Philharmonic]], the [[Limburg Symphony Orchestra]] Maastricht, the [[Northwest German Philharmonic]] Herford, the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Firenze, the Ankara State Orchestra, the [[Mozarteum Salzburg]], the Athens and Thessaloniki State Orchestras and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Nagoya, Tokyo and Sapporo.

On 30 June 2001, Hans-Walter Kämpfel was awarded the [[Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] by the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art in recognition of his numerous merits.

Kämpfel died in [[Zorneding]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/24g6JpA ''Hans Walter Kämpfel ist tot.''] In ''sueddeutsche.de.'' [[Süddeutsche Zeitung]], 25 April 2016, retrieved 23 November 2020.</ref> at the age of 91.

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[[Category:German conductors (music)]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]]
[[Category:1924 births]]
[[Category:2016 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Ingolstadt]]


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