Hans Gruber (conductor)

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|07|11|df=y}}

| birth_place = Vienna, Austria

| death_date = {{death date and age|2001|08|06|1925|07|11|df=y}}

| death_place = Newmarket, Ontario

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| occupation = Conductor

| nationality = Canadian

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Hans Gruber (11 July 1925 – 6 August 2001) was a Canadian conductor of Austrian birth.

Born in Vienna, Gruber became a naturalised Canadian citizen in 1944. He entered The Royal Conservatory of Music in 1939 where he was a conducting student of Allard de Ridder. He also studied conducting in the summers at the Tanglewood Music Center from 1943-1947 with such teachers as Fritz Mahler, Leonard Bernstein, and Pierre Monteux. In 1948 he succeeded Melvin Knudsen as the conductor of the Victoria Symphony, a post he held until 1963.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-symphony-emc|title=Victoria Symphony|author=Audrey Saint Denys Johnson|encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia}} He also served on the music faculty of the University of Toronto for several years where he notably conducted the school's symphony orchestra.