He premiered music in opera and concert, such as Giselher Klebe's Die tödlichen Wünsche, Aribert Reimann's Melusine, Nicolas Nabokov's Love's Labour's Lost, and Wilhelm Killmayer's song cycle Tre Canti di Leopardi.
[3] He conducted with the Berlin company the premiere of Aribert Reimann's Melusine at the Schwetzingen Festival on 29 April 1971, staged by Rudolf Sellner.
[1] He conducted the premiere of The Scarf, a chamber opera in one act by Lee Hoiby at the first Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, on 20 June 1958.
[7] In 1967 he conducted the premiere of Wilhelm Killmayer's Tre Canti di Leopardi for baritone and orchestra at the Allgemeines Deutsches Musikfest München, with Barry McDaniel and the Münchner Philharmoniker.
He conducted works by Adolphe Adam, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Ruggero Leoncavallo Gioachino Rossini and Camille Saint-Saëns.