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First name: Claus-Steffen
Last name: Mahnkopf
Dates: 1962
Category: Quartet
Nationality: german
Opus name: Hommage a Steven Kazuo Takasugi (2005)
Publisher: Sikorski SIK 8643
Peculiarities: to buy: http://www.sikorski.de/660/de/0/a/0/I1G/kammermusik_streicher/kammermusik_fuer_streicher_mit_tasteninstrument/quartett_quintett/noten_cds_dvds.html
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf (born 22 October 1962) is a German composer, editor, and author. Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf was born in Mannheim, Germany, and studied composition with Brian Ferneyhough, Klaus Huber und Emanuel Nunes and music theory at the music academy in Freiburg, where he graduated in 1992. At the same time, he studied musicology, philosophy with Jürgen Habermas and sociology at university. In 1993 he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy for his dissertation on Arnold Schönberg. For his compositions Mahnkopf has won numerous international prizes, among them the Gaudeamus Prize in 1990, the composition prize of the city Stuttgart and the Composers Award of the Ernst-von-Siemens Music Foundation in 1998. Mahnkopf went to Rome (Villa Massimo), Italy, Venice (Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani), Italy, and Basel (Paul-Sacher-Stiftung), Swiss, on scholarships. In 1995 he was one the founders of the Gesellschaft für Musik und Ästhetik (society for music and aesthetics) and he is also one of the editors of the society’s magazine. Mahnkopf worked as music theory teacher and as consultant for opera houses and he published many essays in musicological magazines. In 1999 he married professor doctor Francesca Yardenit Albertini, a Jewish philosopher of religion. From 2001 until 2005 Mahnkopf worked regularly at the experimental studio of the SWR. Since 2005 Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf teaches composition at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig. His music is being performed by many ensembles, like SurPlus or ensemble recherche on international festivals, for example on the Salzburger Festspiele or the Flandern Festival. Among the artists to perform his works regularly are oboist Peter Veale, Sophie-Mayuko Vetter, Carin Levine, James Avery and Frank Cox. Mahnkopf is associated with the New Complexity movement which, in 1997, he proposed should be designated the Second Darmstadt School (Fox 2001). his music has its roots in the German-Austrian music tradition; he frequently falls back on Ludwig van Beethoven and Alban Berg.