Composer
Biography:
Wolfgang von Schweinitz was born on February 7, 1953 in Hamburg. After first attempts at composition in 1960, he studied from 1968 to 1976 with Esther Ballou at the American University in Washington, DC, with Ernst Gernot Klussmann and with György Ligeti at the State University for Music and Theater in Hamburg, and with John Chowning at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in Stanford, California. He then lived as a freelance composer in Munich, Rome and Berlin, then twelve years in rural Schleswig-Holstein and from 1993 to 2007 back in Berlin. In 1980 he was a lecturer at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt and from 1994 to 1996 he was a visiting professor at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar. He currently resides in Southern California, where he succeeded James Tenney as Professor at the California Institute of the Arts in September 2007.
Since the turn of the century his compositions have been concerned with the research and application of microtonal intonation and ensemble playing techniques based on non-tempered pure intonation.
Albums:
Plain Sound Counterpoint / Mirrors:
Plain Sound Glissando Modulation:
