Raphael Dominique Thoene (born 17 March 1980) is a German

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and

musicologist 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, f ...

Biography

Raphael D. Thoene obtained a degree in Composition (

Robert Schumann Hochschule Robert Schumann Hochschule is a school for music studies at university level in Düsseldorf, Germany. It has a student body of some 850 from over forty countries. Forty-seven full-time and part-time faculty and two hundred associate professors pr ...

in Düsseldorf, Germany) 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, ...

(

Folkwang Hochschule The Folkwang University of the Arts is a university for music, theater, dance, design, and academic studies, located in four German cities of North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 1927, its traditional main location has been in the former Werden Abbey in ...

in Essen, Germany). A scholarship recipient, he studied Film Scoring and Composition at the

Berklee College of Music Berklee College of Music () is a Private university, private music college in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known for the study of jazz and modern Music of the United ...

, Boston (USA). He also received a PhD in Musicology at the

University of Music and Performing Arts The University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (, abbreviated MDW) is an Austrian university established in 1817 located in Vienna. With a student body of over three thousand, it is the largest institution of its kind in Austria, and one of t ...

and the

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, Austria, writing his PhD thesis on

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’s symphonic music. As a composer, orchestrator and pianist, Thoene received commissions for the Orchesterakademie NRW, the International Contemporary Music Festival Ensemblia in 2005 and the Niederrheinischer Musikherbst in 2006. He orchestrates film and theatre music, and is the author of the musical "Culture", and co-author of the chamber-opera "Der Herr Gevatter" (staged in Saarbrücken, Düsseldorf and

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). He is currently on faculty as a Lecturer in Music Theory at the

Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media (, abbreviated to HMTMH) is a university of performing arts and media in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. Dating to , it has reorganised and changed names as it developed over the years, ...

(Germany).

Works (a selection)

* Brass Symphony No. I for Brass Band, opus 49 * Poèmes dramatique for chamber ensemble, opus 99, based upon the chamber-opera "Der Herr Gevatter" * Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, opus 108 * Concertino for Trumpet and Orchestra, opus 109 * Sinfonia Concertante for String Orchestra, opus 121

Publications

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External links

Official SiteSpeech at Gresham College London December 2007DDM entry on Raphael Thoene
{{DEFAULTSORT:Thoene, Raphael Living people 1980 births German musicologists German composers Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover