Friedemann Layer (30 October 1941 – 3 November 2019)[1][2] was an Austrian conductor.
He was assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Ulm and to Karl Böhm.
[3] 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.
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