Wilhelm Killmayer was born in Munich on 21 August 1927. From 1945-1951 he was a music student at the music seminar of Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen. From 1951 to 1953 he had private lessons with Carl Orff and then attended Orff's master class at the Staatliche Musikhochschule in Munich. At the same time he studied musicology with Rudolf von Ficker and Walter Riezler, combined with studies in German at the University of Munich.

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