Professional career

Manfred Trojahn was born in Cremlingen

Cremlingen

Cremlingen is a municipality in the district of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany. It borders Lehre, Königslutter, Sickte, and Braunschweig. Parts of it are adjacent to the Elm hills.-History:...

 in Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

 and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of the city of Braunschweig

Braunschweig

Braunschweig , is a city of 247,400 people, located in the federal-state of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser....

. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg

The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany.It was founded 1950 as Staatliche Hochschule für Musik on the base of the former private acting school of Annemarie Marks-Rocke and Eduard Marks.Studies include various music types from church music...

 with Karlheinz Zöller

Karlheinz Zöller

Karlheinz Zöller was a German flutist, and principal in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1960–1969 and 1976–1993.-Early life and education:Karlheinz Zöller was born in Höhr-Grenzhausen, near Frankfurt, Westerwald, Germany....

. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. A also studied with György Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for composition at the Robert Schumann Hochschule

Robert Schumann Hochschule

The Robert-Schumann-Hochschule is a college for music studies on university level in Düsseldorf, Germany.-History:...

 in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the Deutscher Komponistenverband (German Composers Association); since 2008 he is vice-director of the music section of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin.

Manfred Trojahn is married to the stage- and costume-designer Dietlind Konold. He lives in Düsseldorf and Paris.

Publications

Manfred Trojahn: Schriften zur Musik, Ed. by Hans-Joachim Wagner, Frankfurt/M und Basel 2006 (Stroemfeld) ISBN 3-87877-945-3

Students

Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen

Oscar van Dillen

Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.-Education:Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tritantri School in Amsterdam and bansuri with Gurbachan Singh Sachdev at the Bansuri School of Music in Berkeley,...

, Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher

Matthias Pintscher is a German composer and conductor. As a youth, he studied the violin and conducting....

 and Daniel Hensel

Daniel Hensel

Daniel Hensel is a German composer and musicologist.- Life and work :Hensel began his studies of composition in 1995 as a student of the Austrian composer Gerhard Schedl at Dr. Hoch's Konservatorium. From 1999 he studied composition with Heinz Winbeck in Würzburg, from 2003 with Manfred Trojahn in...

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External links

• Manfred Trojahn Bärenreiter
• Manfred Trojahn Sikorski