{"id":12837,"date":"2024-06-14T13:48:32","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/trojahn-manfred\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:18:07","slug":"trojahn-manfred","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/trojahn-manfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Trojahn, Manfred"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Manfred Trojahn<\/span><\/h1>
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Biography<\/span><\/h2>
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Manfred Trojahn was born in Cremlingen near Braunschweig in 1949. He studied orchestral music in Braunschweig and composition with Diether de la Motte in Hamburg.<\/p>\n

With his works he has received numerous scholarships and prizes for his work, including the Study Foundation of the German People (1971), the Stuttgart Award for Young Composers (1972), International Rostrum of Composers, Paris (1978), the Academia Tedesca Villa Massimo in Rome (1979\/80), Sprengel Music Prize, Hannover (1980), Deutscher Musikautorenpreis by GEMA (2009).<\/p>\n

In 1979-80 Trojahn spent a one-year residence at Villa Massimo, Rome. He was Professor of Composition at the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in D\u00fcsseldorf until 2017 and is a member of the Academies of Fine Arts in D\u00fcsseldorf, Hamburg, Berlin and Munich.<\/p>\n

He lives in D\u00fcsseldorf and Paris.<\/p>\n

The work list of Manfred Trojahn includes almost every genre. His works are performed internationally by leading orchestras and composers and renowned soloists.<\/p>\n

Since the premiere of \u201cEnrico\u201d at Schwetzingen and Munich 1991 music theatre has occupied an important position in Trojahn\u2019s oeuvre: his operas \u201cWas ihr wollt\u201d [Twelfth Night], (Munich, 1998), \u201cLa grande magia\u201d (Dresden 2008) and \u201cOrest\u201d (Amsterdam 2011) have received new productions at many international theatres as well as the new composition of the recitatives of Mozart\u2019s \u201cLa clemenza di Tito\u201d was premiered at many theatres.<\/p>\n

In recent years Trojahn has intensified composing for ensemble. Since 2012 his cycle \u201cQuitter\u201d appears on texts by Ren\u00e9 Char for 2 sopranoes, vocal ensembe and 18 instrumenalists, 2017 the 6th movement \u201cLes dentelles de Montmirail\u201d have been premiered by Ensemble Modern at the Festival Acht Br\u00fccken in Cologne.<\/p>\n

2013 Trojahn has composed \u201cLe Ceneri di Gramsci\u201d on a text by Pier Paolo Pasolini for MusikFabrik, and in 2015\/16 the first part of \u201cNocturne – Minotauromachie\u201dhas been premiered by Ensemble Intercontemporain.<\/p>\n

In 2017\u00a0 the melodram \u201cVerpasste Gelegenheiten\u201d (Missed Chances) in cooperation with the poet Michael Kr\u00fcger has been composed for the Klavier Festival Ruhr as well as the song cycle \u201cDie Sonne sinkt\u201d (The setting sun) for soprano and piano after Friedrich Nietzsche for the song workshop of the festival Kissinger Sommer.<\/p>\n

Projects of the\u00a0 season 2017\/18 include a new production of\u00a0\u201cEnrico\u201d at the Frankfurt opera an the revival of the ballet production \u201cune campagne noire de soleil\u201d by Reinhild Hoffmann at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen.<\/p>\n

2021 saw the publication of Robert Maschka’s “Manfred Trojahns Musik<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

In 2019, Manfred Trojahn moved to the Boosey & Hawkes publishing house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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