Wilhelm Baumgartner

Wilhelm Baumgartner was born in Rorshach, Switzerland, and died in Zurich. He was mainly a choral conductor, leading several choirs in Zurich, but was also a pianist, composer, educator and choral conductor. He was a friend of Richard Wagner and Gottfried Keller.

Dianne Shapiro, from Choral Music in the Nineteenth Century by Nick Strimple (New York: Amadeus Press, 2008) and "Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz" accessed online 1-30-2019