German orchestra conductor

Günter Wand

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German orchestra conductor
Awards Received
State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia
Deutscher Kritikerpreis
Ring of Honour of the city Wuppertal
Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hans von Bülow Medal
Music

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.