André Werner
André Werner | |
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| Born | 4 June 1960 Bremerhaven, West Germany |
| Education | Hochschule der Künste Berlin |
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André Werner (born 4 June 1960 in Bremerhaven) is a German composer of classical music.
Werner studied classical guitar and oboe at the Musikhochschule Bremen from 1980 to 1986, composition from 1986 to 1992 at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin with Frank Michael Beyer. He was a Stipendiat of the Villa Massimo in 1995/96,[1] and won an Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize in 2001.[2]
His opera Marlowe: Der Jude von Malta on his own libretto after the play The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe was premiered at the Munich Biennale in 2002.[3]
References
- ^ List of award winners Archived 2011-04-13 at the Wayback Machine, Villa Massimo.
- ^ List of past winners Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine of the Composers' Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Foundation. Retrieved 2 April 2011.
- ^ Archive notes to 8th biennale, 2002, Munich Biennale.
External links
- Official website
- Literature by and about André Werner in the German National Library catalogue
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Categories:
- German opera composers
- Male opera composers
- 20th-century classical composers
- 21st-century classical composers
- 1960 births
- People from Bremerhaven
- Living people
- Berlin University of the Arts alumni
- German male classical composers
- 20th-century German composers
- Ernst von Siemens Composers' Prize winners
- 21st-century German composers
- 20th-century German male musicians
- 21st-century German male musicians