Hans-Jürgen von Bose

Hans-Jürgen von Bose (born 24 December 1953) is a German composer. Life After an unsettled adolescence, Bose entered the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt in 1969, where he received instruction in piano and music theory. Upon graduating from the conservatory, he studied composition (under Hans Ulrich Engelmann), piano (under Klaus Billing), and conducting at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. After attending the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 1974 and the premiere of his First String Quartet, he was awarded several scholarships, among others from the Mozart Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation. In 1976, Bose dropped his studies in Frankfurt and settled in Munich as a freelance artist. The following works like Morphogenesis (1976), Das Diplom (1976), Die Nacht aus Blei (1981), 63: Dream Palace (1990), among others. He received numerous grants and awards, including: * German Academy Rome Villa Massimo (1980/1985) * German Critics Prize (1981) * Schneider-Schott Music Prize, Mainz (1988) * Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (1994) * Prize of the Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation for the recognition of Bose’s educational merits (1998) He received commissi