Effective period / Period of releases: 1951 - 1988

Austrian conductor (* 28 February 1906 in Vienna (Wien), Austro-Hungary; † 06 June 2000 in Vienna (Wien), Austria).

He received his first engagement in 1929 as choir director and bandmaster in Opava/CZ, after which he worked at German theaters (Munich-Gladbach [today Mönchengladbach], Erfurt, Trier, Gießen). From 1940 to 1944 he was first Kapel Meiser at the Vienna Volksoper . From 1946 to 1949 worked in Salzburg as an opera director and concert director, and until 1954 he taught at the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg . From 1954 to 1974 he conducted again at the Vienna Volksoper, with which he also went on tour.