Christoph Staude (born 30 September 1965) is a German composer.
Born in Munich, Staude studied 1984–86 at the University of the Arts with Witold Szalonek and in 1986–91 at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts with Rolf Riehm and Bernhard Kontarsky. [1] Since 1995, he lives as a freelance composer at the Raketenstation Hombroich near Neuss. There, he initiated the series Hombroich: New Music in 1997. He received commissions and radio productions from SWR Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage, WDR Cologne for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, HR Frankfurt, SDR Stuttgart, BR Munich and the AUDI-AG-Kulturfond, Ingolstadt. [2]
Staude-Porträt-CD Edition Zeitgenössische Musik (Deutscher Musikrat) Wergo-6546-2 (2000)
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