Austrian conductor (1939–2015)
Weller was born in Vienna, Austria where he first gained renown as a prodigy on the violin. His father, also named Walter, was a violinist in the Vienna Philharmonic, and at the age of 17, the young Weller became a member, and by the unusually early age of 22 he had become joint concertmaster with Willi Boskovsky. He remained in this post for 11 years. While leading the orchestra, Weller also established and led his own string quartet from 1958 to 1969. In 1966 he married Elisabeth Samohyl with
5 total works indexed
· 1983 · cited 30,376x
· 2005 · cited 18,374x
· 2015 · cited 17,371x
· 2020 · cited 15,328x
· 2011 · cited 13,248x
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