Hans Zender has been played on NTS in shows including Jim O'Rourke, featured first on 25 May 2023. Songs played include Kalligraphie I, Anagamin (1965) and "Liebeszauber" Für Bariton Und Orchester (Nach Einem Gedicht Von F. Hebbel).

Hans (Johannes Wolfgang) Zender (22 November 1936 – 22 October 2019) was a German conductor and composer. He was chief conductor of opera houses, and his compositions, many of them vocal music, have been performed at international festivals.

As a conductor, he worked at opera houses Theater Freiburg, Theater Bonn, Opernhaus Kiel and Hamburg State Opera, and led the radio orchestra Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern. He taught at…