Rolf Thomas Lorenz

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Rolf Thomas Lorenz (born 19 May 1959 in Klingenthal) is a German composer and music teacher.

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Life

From 1974 to 1982 Lorenz received composition lessons from Jürgen Golle in Zwickau. From 1978 to 1982 he studied composition, clarinet and piano at the conservatory "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden with Wilfried Krätzschmar, Josef Oehl, and Hermann W. Finke. Since 1982 Lorenz has been teaching clarinet, composition and music theory at the Heinrich-Schütz-Conservatory Dresden, and he also works as a freelance composer. Since 2004 he has been chairman of the Dresden working group of the German Composers' Association.

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