Manfred Trojahn (born 22 October 1949) is a German composer, flutist, conductor, writer and academic teacher.

Career

Trojahn was born Cremlingen in

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

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. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger College or university school of music, universities of music in Germany. It was founded in 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of t ...

with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with

Diether de la Motte Diether de la Motte (30 March 1928 – 15 May 2010) was a German musician, composer, music theorist, music critic and academic teacher. Life Born in Bonn, de la Motte studied at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold from 1947 to 1950, compositio ...

. He also studied with

György Ligeti György Sándor Ligeti (; ; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian-Austrian composer of contemporary classical music. He has been described as "one of the most important avant-garde music, avant-garde composers in the latter half of the ...

, conducting with Albert Bittner. Since 1991 he is professor for

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at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From 2004 until 2006 he was President of the ; from 2008 to 2012 he was vice-director of the music section of the

Academy of Arts, Berlin The Academy of Arts () is a state arts institution in Berlin, Germany. The task of the Academy is to promote art, as well as to advise and support the states of Germany. The academy's predecessor organization was founded in 1696 by Elector F ...

Works

His works have been published by

Bärenreiter Bärenreiter (Bärenreiter-Verlag) is a German classical music publishing house based in Kassel. The firm was founded by Karl Vötterle (1903–1975) in Augsburg in 1923, and moved to Kassel in 1927, where it still has its headquarters; it ...

and

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Publications

Students

Among Trojahn's students in composition are Oscar van Dillen, Matthias Pintscher and Daniel Hensel.

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* * * Living people German classical composers 1949 births German classical flautists German male conductors (music) German writers about music People from Wolfenbüttel (district) Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg alumni Members of the Academy of Arts, Berlin 21st-century German classical composers German male non-fiction writers German male classical composers 21st-century German composers 21st-century German conductors (music) 21st-century German male musicians 21st-century German flautists {{Germany-composer-stub