Erich Schmid

For the Austrian physicist, see Erich Schmid (physicist).

Erich Schmid was a Swiss composer and conductor. He was born on January 1, 1907 in Balsthal, Switzerland and died December 17, 2000 in Zürich. He studied composition with Bernhard Sekles at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt und später mit Arnold Schönberg. Among many other international conducting roles, he was chief conductor of the Tonhalle Orchestra, Zürich from 1949 to 1957.

Literature

Peter Cahn: Das Hoch'sche Konservatorium in Frankfurt am Main (1878-1978), Frankfurt am Main: Kramer, 1979. (Seite 268ff)

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich Principal Conductors

Friedrich Hegar (1868) Volkmar Andreae (1906) Erich Schmid (1949) Hans Rosbaud (1957) Rudolf Kempe (1965) Charles Dutoit (1967) Gerd Albrecht (1975) Christoph Eschenbach (1982) Hiroshi Wakasugi (1987) David Zinman (1995) Lionel Bringuier (2014)

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