Mauricio Rosenmann Taub

Mauricio Rosenmann Taub (29 June 1932 – 8 March 2021) was a Chilean composer, writer and poet. Background A native of Santiago, he studied piano and composition initially in Santiago, then in Stuttgart and Freiburg with a Scholarship of the DAAD. In Paris he studied at the Conservatoire National with Olivier Messiaen and graduated with distinction (premier prix). During this time Rosenmann worked at the French Broadcast at the “Groupe des Recherches Musicales”, studied organ with Édouard Souberbielle and musicology. With André Martinet he studied linguistics at the University of Paris (Sorbonne). He returned to Germany, attended the Darmstadt New Music Summer School and joined in Freiburg the class of Wolfgang Fortner. He graduated with a composing degree (“Reifeprüng in Komposition und Musiktheorie”) and became a lecturer at the Freiburger Musikhochschule. He was a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen 1974 until 1999. Rosenmann Taub died in Essen on 8 March 2021, at the age of 88. Work In 1960 some poems by Rosenmann were translated into German and published in Freiburg. In 1969 in both Freiburg and Santiago the book Los Paraguas Del No was presented (review i