Composer
Biography:
Manfred Trojahn was born in 1949 in Cremlingen near Braunschweig. He studied orchestral music in Braunschweig and composition with Diether de la Motte in Hamburg.
He has received many grants and prizes for his work, e.g. Stuttgart Advancement Award for Young Composers (1972), First Prize in the International Rostrum of Composers, Paris (1978), Sprengel Prize for Music (1980), German Music Author Prize from GEMA (2009).
In 1979/80 Manfred Trojahn studied at the Villa Massimo in Rome.
He is a professor of composition at the Robert Schumann University in Düsseldorf and a member of the Bavarian Academy of Arts, the Free Academy of Arts in Hamburg, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
Manfred Trojahn composes for orchestra (including five symphonies so far) and for choir as well as songs and chamber music for different instrumentations. His works are performed by major orchestras and conductors as well as renowned soloists.
Since the early 1990s, music theater has played an important role in Trojahn's oeuvre: his operas Enrico (UA Schwetzingen, 1991), What you want (Munich, 1998), Limes from Sicily (Cologne, 2003) were staged at several theaters in Germany, the Netherlands and Austria.
In 2002 he composed to Mozart Tito's clemency the recitative texts new (Amsterdam, 2002). 2008 at the Semperoper Dresden The Great Magic premiered after Eduardo de Filippo.
Albums:
Darmstadt Aural Documents Box 1 Composers – Conductors:
