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Wolfgang Dimetrik

Austrian musician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ2589457 ↗
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Wolfgang Dimetrik (born 6 January 1974) is an Austrian accordionist.

At the age of six he received his first accordion lessons. Five years later he became a pupil of Prof Erwin Moder at the Johann-Joseph-Fux Conservatory in Graz. Having completed his accordion studies at the Graz School of Music (since 1992) as a disciple of the visiting professors Mogens Ellegaard, James Crabb, and Geir Draugsvoll, he received a grant to continue his studies in the class of Prof Stefan Hussong at the Hermann-Zilcher-Conservatory in Würzburg, where he finished his studies with commendation in 2001 before entering the master class of the Würzburg School of Music. 2003 master-class-examination.

Wolfgang Dimetrik joins on stage various chamber ensembles in Europe, such as the musikfabrik Nordrhein-Westfalen, Neues Ensemble Hannover, ensemble recherche, Ensemble SurPlus and the Ensemble Modern.

In addition, he participated in several contemporary opera productions, including The Walls (Die Wände) by Adriana Hölszky, conducted by Alfons Kontarsky (Frankfurt); and the first performance of Arnold Schoenberg's The Lucky Hand (Die glückliche Hand, in an arrangement for chamber orchestra) by the United Ensemble Berlin, conducted by Peter Hirsch.

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“Wolfgang Dimetrik” enters the record as austrian musician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wolfgang, Dimetrik and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974, 1992, 2001, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-01-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wolfgang, Dimetrik and Austrian.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2589457. VIAF identifies the subject as 38135426. The Library of Congress control number is n2015028841. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974, 1992, 2001 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wolfgang Dimetrik” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.