Günter Wand has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 23 January 2024. Songs played include Vogel Als Prophet.

Günter Wand (January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer.

Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner. He was a conducting pupil of Franz von Hoesslin in Munich, but was otherwise largely self-taught as a conductor.

Career: Wand started his career in Cologne, where he was to stay for several…