Editing Karlheinz Zöller (section)

==Personal tragedy==
In 1968, while travelling in a taxi from the hotel to the concert hall in [[Buenos Aires]], Zöller was critically injured in an accident. The cab driver died and Zöller’s lung was pierced by a piece of metal. This severely limited his lung capacity and as a result he was replaced by [[James Galway]] as principal flautist with the Berlin Philharmonic. However, he remained active as a chamber and solo player and maintained a busy teaching and concert schedule. Later, in the 1970s, he had an operation to reattach his non-functional lung. The operation was a success and Zöller regained his position as principal flautist with the Philharmonic, when Galway left to teach at the [[Eastman School of Music]].<ref name=flutist/>