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Udo Zimmermann
German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Udo Zimmermann (6 October 1943 – 22 October 2021) was a German composer, musicologist, opera director, and conductor.
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Born | 6 October 1943 Dresden, Germany |
Died | 22 October 2021(2021-10-22) (aged 78) Dresden, Germany |
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He worked as a professor in Dresden, and was director of the Leipzig Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. He directed a contemporary music series for the Bayerischer Rundfunk. His best known opera was Weiße Rose.
Zimmermann died on 22 October 2021 in Dresden, Germany from a long-illness, aged 78.[1]