Alfred Schweizer (born 4 November 1941) is a Swiss composer.

Life

Schweizer was born in

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. After obtaining his

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, he studied

musicology Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, ...

with Arnold Geering and Lucie Dikenmann-Balmer and languages at the

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. From 1963 to 1966, he received practical musical training with

Sándor Veress Sándor Veress (, – ) was a Swiss composer of Hungarian origin. He was born in Kolozsvár/Klausenburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire, nowadays called Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and died in Bern. The first half of ...

and Theo Hirsbrunner at the

. From 1967 to 1972, he studied composition with

Klaus Huber Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saaria ...

at the

City of Basel Music Academy The City of Basel Music Academy () is an institution for music education, located in Basel, Switzerland. It comprises a music school, college of music, and a center for early music research and performance. History The origins of the City of Base ...

and in 1986/87 further studies with Gerald Bennett, Bruno Spoerri and Rainer Boesch at the Swiss Centre for Computer Music in Oetwil am See. In 1969, he became a teacher of theory at the Winterthur Conservatory. Between 1970 and 2003, Schweizer taught composition and

music theory Music theory is the study of theoretical frameworks for understanding the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "Elements of music, ...

at the Biel Conservatory. In 1981, he was the founder of the contemporary concert series "classic 2000" in Biel and in 1986 of the CD label of the same name. In 2002/03, he was one of the founding members of the in Bern. His works have been performed at home and abroad, including in Germany and Eastern Europe and have been published by

Müller & Schade Müller & Schade is a Swiss music publisher house founded in 1850 and based in Bern. History Müller & Schade was founded in Bern in 1850 and is organised in the legal form of a public limited company. The Musiknotenhaus publishes choral and ...

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Biographie, Werkliste und Diskographie von Alfred Schweizer
in der Online-Datenbank musinfo.ch der Schweizer Musikedition {{DEFAULTSORT:Schweizer, Alfred 20th-century Swiss classical composers Swiss music educators 1941 births Living people

Life

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