Friedemann Layer

Friedemann Layer (30 October 1941 – 3 November 2019) was an Austrian conductor. He was assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Ulm and to Karl Böhm. In 1989, he conducted a film version of Der Schauspieldirektor, with Zdzisława Donat and Christian Boesch in the cast.

Layer was chief conductor of the Opéra national de Montpellier from 1994 to 2007.

Selected discography

 * Henze - Symphony No 10; 4 Poemi; La Selva Incantata. Montpellier National Orchestra
 * Mieczysław Karłowicz - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon National Orchestra
 * Alfano - Risurrezione Accord
 * Offenbach - Die Rheinnixen Accord
 * Respighi - La campana sommersa Accord
 * Lidarti - Esther oratorio in Hebrew. Accord.
 * Ponchielli - Marion Delorme Accord
 * Zoltán Kodály - Háry János sung in Hungarian, with French narration by Gérard Depardieu. Accord
 * Cilea - L'arlesiana Accord
 * Antoine Mariotte - Salomé Accord