Born in Jena on 22 January 1940, died on 3 February 2006; Tilo Medek was a composer and music publisher. He was a son of the composer Willy Müller-Medek and from 1950 received lessons in violin, piano, improvisation and music theory at the Jena music school. In 1959 he began musicology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with Walther Vetter, Ernst Hermann Meyer and Georg Knepler; he studied composition at the Deutsche Hochschule für Musik in East Berlin with Rudolf Wagner-Regeny and until 1967 in the master class of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste. In 1964 he completed his musicological studies with a thesis on the settings of Goethe’s Prometheus poem. From 1962 he worked as a repetiteur and composer for theatre and radio. In July 1977 he was stripped of his GDR citizenship after opposing the expatriation of Wolf Biermann; he then lived in Adscheid, Unkel and from 1985 in Oberwinter near Remagen. In 1982 he founded the Edition Tilo Medek, and from 2002 he taught composition at the Staatliches Musikgymnasium Montabaur. In the Cybele catalogue an album of its own is devoted to him: Tilo Medek: Organ Works appeared in 2008.
Tilo Medek
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