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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