Zender, Hans (1936– )

German conductor and composer. He worked at opera houses in Freiburg, Bonn, and Kiel, and was music director of Hamburg Opera 1984–87 (principal conductor from 1977). In 1987 he became conductor of the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra.

Zender studied at Frankfurt and Freiburg, and in Rome under Bernd Alois Zimmermann, whose works he has frequently conducted. He conducted Parsifal at Bayreuth in 1975 and Fidelio at Brussels Opera in 1989.

Works Opera Stephen Climax (1986).

Orchestral piano concerto (1956), Zeitströme for orchestra (1974).

Choral and voice cantata Der Mann von La Mancha for voices and Moog synthesizer (1969), Continuum and Fragments for chorus, Cantos I–V for voices and instruments.

Other electronic works.