Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German composer
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Place of Birth: Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
About Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski
- Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski (21 June 1949 – 5 January 2013) was a German composer. Schmidt-Kowalski was born at Oldenburg in 1949.
- He studied composition at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Berlin under Frank Michael Beyer (1971) and at the Musikhochschule Hannover under Alfred Koerppen (1972–77).
- In the course of his studies, Schmidt-Kowalski turned from the musical avant-garde and chose to write in a more traditional vein.
- Since the late 1970s he worked as a freelance composer, mainly writing commissioned works for soloists and events.
- His compositions have been performed in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Sydney, Melbourne, Mexico City, and Yokohama, and have been recorded on the Naxos label.
- Schmidt-Kowalski latterly emerged as a conductor of his own works.
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