Ingo Nugel (11 December 1976 – 25 March 2007) was a video game
composer who together with his brother Henning founded Nugel Bros. Music. Together they wrote and produced music for games, short films and advertisements.
After being diagnosed with
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a type of lymphoma, in which cancer originates from a specific type of white blood cell called lymphocytes, where multinucleated Reed–Sternberg cells (RS cells) are present in the patient's lymph nodes. The condition w ...
, he died on 25 March 2007 aged 30 years.
Biography
Ingo Nugel was born in Dortmund on December 11, 1976. A classically trained pianist himself, he and his brother Henning founded Nugel Bros. Music in 1999. In the same year they completed their first game soundtrack for the action-strategy game “War Commander” developed by Independent Arts. From then on he and his brother composed music for several highly successful game titles as e.g. Football Manager 2002 (
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Founded in May 1982 by Apple employee Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer game industry and promoted th ...
Germany),
The Moment of Silence (
House of Tales/
The Adventure Company
The Adventure Company was a Canadian video game developer and a former publishing division of DreamCatcher Interactive. It was sold to THQ Nordic GmbH
THQ Nordic GmbH (formerly Nordic Games GmbH) is an Austrian video game publisher based in ...
),
Darkstar One (
Ascaron
Ascaron Entertainment was a video game developer based in Germany. Founded as Ascon by Holger Flöttmann in 1991 and later renamed in October 1996 due to the possible confusion with the Swiss company Ascom AG, the company produced titles primar ...
/
Ubisoft
Ubisoft Entertainment SA (; ; formerly Ubi Soft Entertainment SA) is a French video game publisher headquartered in Saint-Mandé with development studios across the world. Its video game franchises include ''Assassin's Creed'', '' Far Cry'', ...
) or “
The Settlers II (10th Anniversary)
''The Settlers II (10th Anniversary)'' (german: Die Siedler II: Die nächste Generation) is a city-building game with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Released for Microsoft Windows in September 200 ...
Edition” (
Funatics/
Ubisoft
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). His music is also featured in several short films, e.g. Dronez (German Film School).
In 2004 "
The Moment of Silence" was awarded the third prize in the category “Best Soundtrack” at the German Game Developer Awards. The game soundtrack was also released on CD and distributed by
ZYX Music
ZYX Music GmbH & Co. KG is a German record label that was founded in 1971 by Bernhard Mikulski. It is one of the most successful German record labels of the 1980s and 1990s. Until 1992, the label's name was Pop-Import Bernhard Mikulski. The labe ...
that year.
Ingo Nugel and his brother also composed the music for the award winning
Audi R8 (road car)
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The car is exclusively designed, developed, and manufactur ...
microsite.
Nugel developed a Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2005, but by the end of the year, chemotherapy seemed to have beaten it. However in November 2006 the illness returned, and Nugel went back to hospital. While there, he developed a severe pneumonia, and was moved into intensive care on March 16, 2007. In his last days, an infection took over before he died on 25 March 2007 at the university hospital in Essen. He was only 30 years old.
In August 2007 a suite of the music from „
The Settlers II (10th Anniversary)
''The Settlers II (10th Anniversary)'' (german: Die Siedler II: Die nächste Generation) is a city-building game with real-time strategy elements, developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft. Released for Microsoft Windows in September 200 ...
Edition“ was performed on occasion of the
Games Convention
The Games Convention (GC), sometimes called the Leipzig Games Convention, was an annual video game event held in Leipzig, Germany, first held in 2002. Besides video games, the event also covers Infotainment, Hardware, and Edutainment. Its concep ...
2007 at the
Gewandhaus
Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
History
The first Gewandhaus (''Altes Gewandhaus'')
The f ...
in Leipzig. This year's "
Symphonic Game Music Concert
The ''Symphonic Game Music Concerts (''shortened to: ''Game Concerts'') are a series of award-winning orchestral video game music concerts first performed in 2003 at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Germany, notable for being the longest running and the ...
" which features many other famous game scores was dedicated to him.
External links
Articles and interviews
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Obituary - VGM Concerts
Websites
Homepage Nugel Bros. MusicListing at Mobygames
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References
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20th-century German musicians
German composers
1976 births
2007 deaths