Klaus Schedl
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Klaus Schedl is a German
Germans
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 composer.

Klaus Schedl studied from 1991 to 1996 composition with Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Hans-Jürgen von Bose
Hans-Jürgen von Bose is a German Composer.-Life:After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory...

 at the Salzburg Mozarteum and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
The Hochschule für Musik und Theater München is one of the most respected traditional vocational universities in Germany specialising in music and the performing arts. The seat of the Hochschule is the former Führerbau of the NSDAP, located at Arcisstraße 12, on the eastern side of the Königsplatz...

. In 1993 he founded the piano possibile ensemble for contemporary music. From 1998 he taught at the conservatory of Coimbra
Coimbra
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. In 2001 he studied on a scholarship of Bavaria at the IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

.

In 2005 he received a project scholarship from the city of Munich for City Scan München, which was premiered in 2006 as part of the Munich Biennale
Munich Biennale
The Munich Biennale is an opera festival in the city of Munich. The full German name is Internationales Festival für neues Musiktheater, literally: International Festival for New Music Theater. The biennial festival was created in 1988 by Hans Werner Henze and is held in even-numbered years over...

. In 2010 his opera Tilt, on a libretto by Roland Quitt after the diary of Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
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, was performed as part of the triple bill entitled Amazonas (with Der Einsturz des Himmels and In Erwartung) at the Munich Biennale, also in São Paulo and Rotterdam. In 2011 his song cycle Les Fleurs du Mal after Charles Baudelaire was premiered.

Klaus Schedl is a member of the festival A•DEvantgarde.

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