Peter Schneider (conductor)

Peter Schneider (born 26 March 1939, in Vienna) is an Austrian conductor and opera administrator.

Schneider served as kapellmeister of the Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf-Duisburg from 1961 to 1968; general music director of the Bremer Philharmoniker from 1978 to 1985; opera director and general music director of Nationaltheater Mannheim from 1985 to 1987; and general music director of the Bayerische Staatsoper orchestra, München from 1993 to 1998.

Schneider sang as a member of the Vienna Boys Choir as a youth, and was named honorary conductor of the Vienna State Opera in 2004.

• Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class (1997)^[1]
• Bavarian Order of Merit
• Honorary member of the Vienna State Opera
• Winners of the Foundation Semperoper Dresden (2008)
• Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2009)^[2]

• Vincent Vargas (26 March 2006). "Peter Schneider meets Parsifal". WagnerBlog. Retrieved 2007-08-27.
• "Schneider, Peter: Biografie". Hilbert Artists Management. Archived from the original on 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2007-08-27.

• Peter Schneider at IMDb
• Peter Schneider at the Operabase database

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Bayerisches Staatsorchester General Music Directors

• Franz Lachner (1836)
• Hans von Bülow (1867)
• Franz Wüllner (1870)
• Hermann Levi (1872)
• Richard Strauss (1894)
• Hermann Zumpe (1901)
• Felix Mottl (1904)
• Bruno Walter (1913)
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1922)
• Clemens Krauss (1937)
• Hans Knappertsbusch (1945)
• Georg Solti (1946)
• Rudolf Kempe (1952)
• Ferenc Fricsay (1956)
• Joseph Keilberth (1959)
• Wolfgang Sawallisch (1971)
• Peter Schneider (1992)
• Zubin Mehta (1998)
• Kent Nagano (2006)
• Kirill Petrenko (2013)
• Vladimir Jurowski (2021)

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