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

Career

Trojahn was born Cremlingen in Lower Saxony and began his musical studies in 1966 in orchestra music at the music school of Braunschweig. After graduating in 1970 he concluded his studies as a flutist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg with Karlheinz Zöller. From 1971 he studied composition with Diether de la Motte. He also studied with György Ligeti, conducting with

Albert Bittner Albert Bittner (27 September 1900 – 7 August 1980) was a German conductor and Generalmusikdirektor. Life Born in Nuremberg, Bittner attended the Realgymnasium and the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg and completed private music studies with A ...

. Since 1991 he is professor for

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at the

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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.

Works

His works have been published by

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and

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Publications

Students

Among Trojahn's students in composition are

Oscar van Dillen Oscar Ignatius Joannes van Dillen (born 25 June 1958 in 's-Hertogenbosch) is a Dutch composer, conductor, and instrumentalist. Education Van Dillen studied North-Indian classical music (sitar, tabla, vocal) with Jamaluddin Bhartiya at the Tri ...

, Matthias Pintscher and

Daniel Hensel Daniel Hensel (born 17 April 1978 in Büdingen) is a German composer, VJing, VJ, musicologist and music theorist. He is known as a composer of expressive works of all musical genre's whose works can be dedicated to ″a thread of a tradition le ...

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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 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 flautists {{Germany-composer-stub