Manfred Trojahn

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Manfred Trojahn
Born(1949-10-22)22 October 1949
Cremlingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Education Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations

Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.

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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  [ de ]; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Arts, Berlin. [1]

Works

His works have been published by Bärenreiter and Sikorski.

Publications

Students

Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel.

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References

  1. "Trojahn". Akademie der Künste, Berlin (in German). Retrieved 18 November 2022.