Gottfried Michael Koenig

Koenig worked between 1926 and 2021 across composer and university teacher. The registers place that work in classical music. This article rests on 92 catalogued compositions, 5 published texts, 5 issued recordings, 1 digitised documents and 7 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Ramon Zupko, Nil Parent and Henrik Otto Donner are recorded as having studied under Gottfried Michael Koenig. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is electronic dance music, instrumental music and music composing. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are classical. Employment is recorded with Utrecht University.

Born in Magdeburg, Koenig studied church music in Braunschweig at the Niedersächsische Musikschule Braunschweig, followed by musical composition, piano, analysis, and acoustics at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. He continued his studies in music representation techniques at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and computer technique at the University of Bonn. Koenig attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt music summer schools) and later served there as a lecturer. From 1954 to 1964, Koenig worked in the electronic studio of West German Radio (WDR), where he produced his electronic compositions Klangfiguren, Essay and Terminus 1, and wrote chamber and orchestral music. During this period, he also assisted other composers, including Mauricio Kagel, Franco Evangelisti, György Ligeti (with Artikulation), Herbert Brün and Karlheinz Stockhausen (with the realization of Gesang der Jünglinge and Kontakte). From 1961 to 1965, Koenig taught at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven, and from 1962 to 1964 at the Hochschule für Musik Köln. In 1964 he moved to the Netherlands, where he taught at Utrecht University and was, until 1986, director and later chairman of the electronic music studio (later the Institute of Sonology). There he developed his computer composition programs Project 1 (1964) and Project 2 (1966), designed to formalise the composition of musical structure-variants. Both programs had a significant impact on the development of algorithmic composition systems. His sound synthesis program SSP (started 1971) is based on the representation of sound as a sequence of amplitudes in time. It makes use of the methods of aleatoric and groupwise selection of elements employed in Project 1 and Project 2. He continued to produce electronic works (Terminus 2, the Funktionen series). These were followed by the application of his computer programs, resulting in chamber music (Übung for piano, the Segmente series, 3 ASKO Pieces, String Quartet 1987, String Trio) and works for orchestra (Beitrag, Concerti e Corali). Koenig later taught Algorithmic Composition in 2002/03 at Technische Universität Berlin.

Gottfried Michael Koenig is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Classed in the genre classical music. Recorded as a citizen of Germany. Established in Library of Congress under n84116155. Established in RKDartists under 506762. Established in Discogs under 144051. Established in FAST under 135812.