Mathias Spahlinger

Mathias Spahlinger (born 15 October 1944 in Frankfurt) is a German composer. His work takes place in a field of tension between diverse musical influences and styles. Between Renaissance music and jazz; between musique concrète and post-Webernian minimalism; between noise, improvisation, and notation; and between aesthetic autonomy and political consciousness, Spahlinger’s works carry out conflicts for which there are no fixed models. Life His father was a cellist. He taught him fiddle, viola da gamba, recorder, and later cello from 1951. In 1952 he got piano lessons. In 1959 he began to study jazz intensively, took saxophone lessons and wanted to become a jazz musician. In 1962 he left school and took an apprenticeship as a typesetter. During this time he took private composition lessons with Konrad Lechner. After finishing his apprenticeship he continued his studies with Lechner at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt. In 1968 he became a teacher at the Stuttgart Music School for piano, theory, early musical education and experimental music. From 1973 to 1977 he studied composition with Erhard Karkoschka at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer for m