German composer and conductor

Wolfgang Fortner

Opera Western classical music

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German composer and conductor

Genres

Opera Western classical music

Awards Received

Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg

Reinhold-Schneider-Preis

Berliner Kunstpreis

honorary doctor of the University of Freiburg

Honorary doctor of the Heidelberg University

Music

Member of, past and present

Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts

Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, composition teacher and conductor.