Manfred Trojahn
Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.
Manfred Trojahn
- Name
- Manfred Trojahn
- Born
- 22 October 1949
- Birthplace
- Cremlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
- Education
- Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
- Occupation
- * Composer
- Nationality
- Germany
- Teachers
- Diether de la Motte
- Honours
- Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo
- Languages
- German
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Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.
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Manfred Trojahn studied at Hamburg University of Music and Drama. Training under Diether de la Motte is recorded. Matthias Pintscher is recorded as having studied under Manfred Trojahn. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Düsseldorf and Paris. Employment is recorded with Robert Schumann Hochschule. Distinctions recorded are Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo.
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• Name — Manfred Trojahn • Born — 22 October 1949 • Birthplace — Cremlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany • Education — Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg • Occupation — * Composer • Academic teacher • Organizations — * Robert Schumann Hochschule • Deutscher Komponistenverband • Academy of Arts, Berlin
Career
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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 German Composers Association; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
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His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski.
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Manfred Trojahn is recorded as composer, conductor, university teacher, music journalist and writer.
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1949
Manfred Trojahn born at Cremlingen.
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Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel.
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Manfred Trojahn studied at Hamburg University of Music and Drama. He trained under Diether de la Motte. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
He was employed by Robert Schumann Hochschule. He belonged to Academy of Arts, Berlin, North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts, Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and Robert Schumann Hochschule. He worked at Düsseldorf and Paris.
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