Hans-Jürgen von Bose

Born in Munich in 1953; Hans-Jürgen von Bose is a composer. After piano and theory lessons at the Hoch’sches Konservatorium he studied composition with Hans Ulrich Engelmann in Frankfurt from 1972, as well as piano and conducting with Klaus Billing. In 1974 his first string quartet was premiered; from 1976 he worked freelance in Munich. From 1991 he was professor of composition at the Mozarteum Salzburg and from 1992 to 2015 taught as professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater München. His stage works include “Das Diplom” (premiere Ulm 1976), the ballet “Die Nacht aus Blei” (Deutsche Oper Berlin 1981), “63: Dream Palace” (Münchener Biennale 1990) and “Schlachthof 5” (Bayerische Staatsoper 1996). He held fellowships at the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1980 and 1985, received the Schneider-Schott-Musikpreis (1988) and a Förderpreis of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (1994) and is a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste. On the Cybele album piano possibile (2000) he is represented as a composer.