Karl Höller (25 July 1907 – 14 April 1987) was a German composer of the late Romantic tradition.
He taught at the Munich Academy (1933–1937), from 1937 in Frankfurt at the Hoch Conservatory and Hochschule für Musik (1938–1946), and the Munich Conservatory (Hochschule für Musik) (1949–1972; taking over the composition class of his teacher Joseph Haas[4]).
[6] They are redolent of Paul Hindemith, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger and the French 20th century school.
He wrote in a tonal idiom regardless of the prevailing fashions, which meant that he was initially criticised as modernist, and later as a reactionary.
[7] His music has been recorded by such artists as Eugen Jochum (Symphonic Fantasy and Sweelinck Variations[8]), Wilhelm Furtwängler (Cello Concerto No.