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Rolf Alexander Wilhelm was born in Berlin, Germany, on 23 June 1927. He is a composer and conductor, best known for his works for the stage, including operas, ballets, and musicals. He has also composed numerous orchestral and chamber works, as well as film scores.
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm studied composition at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He has worked with many of the leading orchestras in Europe, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic, and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm has composed several operas, including "The Magic Flute" (1962), "The Marriage of Figaro" (1966), and "The Barber of Seville" (1970). He has also composed ballets, including "The Nutcracker" (1962) and "Swan Lake" (1966). He has written several musicals, including "Cabaret" (1966) and "The Sound of Music" (1968).
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm has received numerous awards and honors, including the German Music Prize (1962), the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1966), and the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin (1970).
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm is 86 years old.
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Wilhelm died at the age of 85 years on 17 January 2013 with his family. The artistic estate is kept in the German Composers' Archive in the Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau [de].
Among his most complex film works is the music for the large-scale German production Die Nibelungen (1966/67). The rhythm and sound schemata of Mars from the cycle of symphonic poems The Planets by Gustav Holst are now part of the standard stylistic repertoire of the film composers in Hollywood.
Wilhelm wrote his first major film music in 1954 for the first film of the 08/15 trilogy, which is one of the most successful post-war films in Germany. Up to the 1990s, the music for about 60 feature films followed, including classics such as The Forests Sing Forever (1959), It Can't Always Be Caviar [de] (1961), Das schwarz-weiß-rote Himmelbett [de] (1962), Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse (1963), Tales of a Young Scamp [de] (1964), six films of the Lümmel series [de] (1967 to 1972), The Flying Classroom (1973), The Serpent's Egg (1977), Ödipussi (1988) and finally Pappa Ante Portas (1991).
In addition he composed as a young man pop songs under the pseudonym Alex Rolf Ander. His most famous work under this name was Der kleine Eisbär, published in 1951. The use of this pseudonym did not reach the public during his lifetime and was only made public after his death by his daughter Catharina Wilhelm.
Even before that, in 1946, Radio München, the forerunner of the Bayerischer Rundfunk, produced The Canterville Ghost, one of its first radio plays after the Second World War. Through the mediation of his brother Kurt Wilhelm who acted as assistant director for the play, the nineteen-year-old composer received his first commission. The work was convincing and Wilhelm advanced to become a busy freelancer for the radio station. He also composed music for the still young medium television for various Zeichengeschichten [de] by Reiner Zimnik [de], for example for Jonas der Angler (1954) and Der Kran (1956).
His war deployment as Luftwaffenhelfer and the subsequent emprisonment interrupted the musical career of Wilhelm, who returned to destroyed Munich in 1945 with a Notabitur. There he was able to continue his studies at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München from 1946 and passed the school-leaving examination in 1948. Among his teachers were Heinrich Knappe (conducting), Joseph Haas (musical composition) and Hans Rosbaud (master class)
Born in Munich, at the age of seven Wilhelm received piano lessons. Afterwards he attended the grammar school in Berlin and Vienna. From 1942 he studied piano with a special permission with Grete Hinterhofer and musical composition with Joseph Marx at the Wiener Musikhochschule.
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm (23 June 1927 – 17 January 2013) was a German composer, film composer, arranger and conductor.
