Hans Zender

Johannes Wolfgang Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was the chief conductor of several opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals. As a conductor, he worked at the Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. He taught at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt. His opera Stephen Climax premiered in 1986 at the Oper Frankfurt, and his third opera, Chief Joseph, premiered in 2005 at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden.

"'17th Century & Beyond - Orchestral Works" - 2025-08-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise - A Composed Interpretation - 2020-05-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Zender: Schuberts Winterreise - 2018-09-21T00:00:00.000000Z

Zender: Dialog mit Haydn - Issei no kyo - Nanzen no kyo - 2017-09-29T00:00:00.000000Z

Zender: Adónde? Wohin? - 2016-11-11T00:00:00.000000Z

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