The Swiss composer Hans Ulrich Lehmann fell asleep peacefully in Zollikerberg Hospital in the early morning of January 26, according to a statement from his family.
Born in Biel in 1937, Lehmann studied at the conservatories in Biel, Zurich and Basel and attended master classes with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. He also studied musicology with Kurt von Fischer at the University of Zurich.
Between 1961 and 1972, Lehmann was a teacher at the Music Academy of the City of Basel, from 1969 to 1990 he was a lecturer in New Music and Music Theory at the University of Zurich, and in 1990 also at the University of Bern.
From 1976 to 1998, Lehmann also served as Director of the Zurich Conservatory and Music Academy.
In 1973 he received the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Foundation Music Prize, in 1988 the Composer Prize of the Swiss Musicians' Association, in 1990 the Art Prize of the City of Zollikon and in 1993 the Art Prize of the City of Zurich.
