Clemens Nachtmann

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Clemens Nachtmann (* 1965 in Neustadt an der Waldnaab ) is a composer and author living in Austria and Germany .

Life

Nachtmann studied political science in Munich and Berlin . a. with Johannes Agnoli and in the 1980s composition and music theory with Wilhelm Killmayer , in the 1990s with Friedrich Goldmann , Gösta Neuwirth and Hartmut Fladt . He is the author of Bahamas magazine and the weekly Jungle World .

After a long stay in Berlin, Nachtmann moved to Graz in 2004, where he first completed a postgraduate course in composition with Beat Furrer as part of a DAAD postgraduate scholarship and has been teaching music theory and aural training at the Graz University of Art since 2005. There he has been a university professor for harmony and counterpoint since March 2019. For his artistic work he has received numerous prizes and awards such as the composition scholarship from the Berlin Senate, the Boris Blacher Prize for Composition of New Music 2004, the second prize at the Gustav Mahler Composition Prize of the City of Klagenfurt in 2008 and the scholarship for a stay at Schleswig-Holsteinische Künstlerhaus Eckernförde in autumn 2010. Many of his compositions were broadcast on Austrian and German radio.

Positions

In well-received articles for Bahamas magazine , of which he is part of the editorial team, Nachtmann et al. a. subjected academic anti-racism and critical whiteness research to sharp criticism. In addition, he has written in political writings, which u. a. published by Ça-Ira-Verlag , repeatedly concerned with the concept of the German people's state in comparison with other forms of Western statehood.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Biography - Clemens Nachtmann. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  2. ^ Bahamas - Issue Archive. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  3. jungle.world - Clemens Nachtmann. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  4. On the arrival of Clemens Nachtmann. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  5. Vocal experts from Styria - Cantando Admont. Retrieved April 22, 2020 (German).
  6. ^ Oe1.orf.at: portrait of the composer Clemens Nachtmann. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .