Bruno Seidler-Winkler

Karl Ludwig Bruno Seidler-Winkler (18 July 1880 – 19 October 1960[1]) was a German conductor, pianist and music arranger.

Seidler-Winkler was born in Berlin as the son of a musician and already made his musical appearance in his youth.

[3] At the age of ten he also played the violin and was considered a gifted pianist; four years later he conducted in a small theatre in Berlin.

Numerous recordings have been preserved that were made with the singer Otto Reutter, from 1902 until shortly after the First World War;[8] as well as with Váša Příhoda.

From the beginning of the 1930s he was engaged at the Universität der Künste Berlin in the training of young artists for the musical design of radio programmes.

In 1938 he was involved in a first electric recording of the opera Die Walküre by Richard Wagner, which had been planned since the beginning of the 1930s and then begun in 1935 in Vienna by Bruno Walter and the Wiener Symphoniker.