Thilo von Westernhagen (14 January 1950 – 11 January 2014) was a German composer and pianist.

Biography

Thilo von Westernhagen was born on 14 January 1950 in

Preetz Preetz () is a town southeast of Kiel in the Plön (district), district of Plön, in Schleswig-Holstein, Northern Germany. Preetz is also known as "Schusterstadt" (English: 'shoemaker town') named after shoemakers who used to live and work in this ...

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; ; ; ; ; occasionally in English ''Sleswick-Holsatia'') is the Northern Germany, northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical Duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of S ...

. His father, Wolfgang von Westernhagen, was a dentist. He was a member of the von Westernhagen family, who were part of the German minor nobility. He attended the

University of Kiel Kiel University, officially the Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, (, abbreviated CAU, known informally as Christiana Albertina) is a public research university in the city of Kiel, Germany. It was founded in 1665 as the ''Academia Holsator ...

where he studied dentistry before switching to music. He composed classical music and jazz music. He also composed scores for the 1980 television film ''Geheime Mission'', the 1981 television films ' and ''Beate und Mareile'', the 1982 film ', the 1986 television film ''Storm, der Schimmelreiter'', and for two episodes of the television crime series ''

Tatort ("Crime Scene") is a German-language police procedural television series that has been running continuously since 1970 with 30 feature-length episodes per year, making it the longest-running German TV drama. Developed by the German public-se ...

''. He married Monika Borchfeldt and had two daughters. He died on 11 January 2014 in

Lübeck Lübeck (; or ; Latin: ), officially the Hanseatic League, Hanseatic City of Lübeck (), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 220,000 inhabitants, it is the second-largest city on the German Baltic Sea, Baltic coast and the second-larg ...

References

''Musik: Komponist Thilo von Westernhagen gestorben''
Focus Online, Meldung 13 January 2014, retrieved 13 January 2014
''Thilo von Westernhagen, RC Grevesmühlen Jazzkomponist und Wagner-Fan.''

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