Friedemann Layer

{{Short description|Austrian conductor (1941–2019)}}

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Friedemann Layer (30 October 1941 – 3 November 2019){{cite web|url=https://slippedisc.com/2019/11/death-of-an-austrian-maestro-78/|title=Death of an Austrian Maestro, 78|website=slippeddisc|access-date=5 November 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://magazin.klassik.com/news/teaser.cfm?ID=15381|title=Dirigent Friedemann Layer gestorben|website=magazin.klassik.com|access-date=6 November 2019| language = de}} was an Austrian conductor. He was assistant to Herbert von Karajan in Ulm and to Karl Böhm.{{Cite web |url=http://www.choeurdelaradio.org/Friedmann-Layer |title=Bio |access-date=2010-12-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315174621/http://www.choeurdelaradio.org/Friedmann-Layer |archive-date=2012-03-15 |url-status=dead }} In 1989, he conducted a film version of Der Schauspieldirektor, with Zdzisława Donat and Christian Boesch in the cast.

Layer was chief conductor of the Opéra national de Montpellier from 1994 to 2007.