Jakob Ullmann

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Jakob Ullmann (born July 12, 1958 in Freiberg ) is a German composer and university professor .

His father was the theologian, politician and editor of the weekly newspaper Der Freitag Wolfgang Ullmann .

After total refusal to do military service in the National People's Army (NVA), Ullmann worked from 1978 to 1982 as a caretaker, stoker and painter in Dresden . From 1979 to 1982 he studied church music at the church music school of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Saxony . From 1982 he took private composition studies with Friedrich Goldmann and worked as a freelance composer and author in samizdat publications.

Since 1990 he has been working as a freelance composer and musicological author. He received teaching positions at various universities on medieval and new music, the history and theory of Byzantine music, as well as music and general philosophy. In 2004 Ullmann received his doctorate in philosophy ( Dr. phil. ) At the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig .

Since October 2005 he has been teaching composition at the University of Music in Basel , since 2008 as a professor. He also teaches music theory there.

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SURNAME Ullmann, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg