Johannes Fritsch

Born 1941 in Bensheim-Auerbach; Johannes Fritsch was a German composer and teacher. From 1964 to 1970 he was a member of the Stockhausen ensemble and then directed the seminar for new music in Darmstadt. As professor of composition in Cologne he shaped a great many younger composers; at the same time he founded, with Rolf Gehlhaar, the Feedback Studio and the Feedback Studio Verlag. His work joins concentrated sonic thinking to an alert interest in new forms of production and performance.