Manfred Trojahn
Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor and writer.
Career[]
Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for musical composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the (Deutscher Komponistenverband); since 2008 he is vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.
Works[]
His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski.
Publications[]
- Trojahn, Manfred (2006). Wagner, Hans-Joachim (ed.). Schriften zur Musik (in German). Frankfurt und Basel: Stroemfeld Verlag. ISBN 3-87877-945-3.
Students[]
Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel.
External links[]
- Literature by and about Manfred Trojahn in the German National Library catalogue
- Manfred Trojahn Bärenreiter-Verlag
- Manfred Trojahn Sikorski
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