Friedhelm Döhl (7 July 1936 – 25 September 2018)Abschied von Friedhelm Döhl
was a German composer and professor of music.Wilfried Brennecke and Erika Schaller. "Döhl, Friedhelm." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/07924 (accessed September 16, 2010). Döhl studied

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

with

Wolfgang Fortner Wolfgang Fortner (12 October 1907 – 5 September 1987) was a German composer, academic composition teacher and conductor. Life and career Fortner was born in Leipzig. From his parents, who were both singers, Fortner very early on had intense ...

and

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with Carl Seemann at the

Hochschule für Musik Freiburg The Hochschule für Musik Freiburg ("University of Music Freiburg or Freiburg Conservatory of Music") is a public music academy subsidized by the State of Baden-Württemberg for academic research and artistic and pedagogical training in music. ...

, and also musicology, German philology, art history, and philosophy concurrently at the Universities of

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...

and

Göttingen Göttingen (, ; ; ) is a college town, university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the Capital (political), capital of Göttingen (district), the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. According to the 2022 German census, t ...

. In 1966 he wrote his doctoral dissertation on

Anton Webern Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...

. From 1964 to 1967 he was a lecturer at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in

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. There he founded the Studio for New Music. From 1969 to 1974 he was a professor at the Musicology Institute of the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public university, public research university in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in West Berlin in 1948 with American support during the early Cold War period a ...

, where he was a member of New Music Berlin. In 1974 he was appointed director of the Music Academy of Basel, and worked there until 1982. This period saw the founding of the studios there for electronic music, non-European music, music and theater. In the years from 1980 to 1983 he was president of the German section of the International Society for Contemporary Music. During his tenure came the founding of the Ensemble Modern. Since 1982 he has been professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in

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, and he became its director in 1991. At Lübeck he introduced a new series of events (Forum of Young Composers, New Music Workshop). In 1992, he initiated the Lübeck Brahms Festival. Since 1986 he has been a member of the Free Academy of Arts in

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. He was artistic director for the concert series Musica Viva / Encounters, in Reinbek, from 1986 to 1988, and served in a similar capacity for the 1987 NDR Festival 'The New Factory,' in Lübeck. He has composed works for solo instruments, chamber groups,

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, and live electronics. Paul Sacher performed "Conductus" für vier Schlagzeuger (1980) with Das Basler Schlagzeug-Ensemble im Stadttheater Basel (13. September 1981) (CD Paul Sacher und die Neue Musik, Ars Musici)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dohl, Friedhelm 1936 births 2018 deaths Musicians from Göttingen 20th-century German classical composers Experimental composers Electroacoustic music composers Hochschule für Musik Freiburg alumni German male classical composers 20th-century German male musicians Academic staff of the Lübeck Academy of Music Webern scholars