Death of the composer Rolf Urs Ringger
The Swiss composer and journalist Rolf Urs Ringger has died at the age of 84. As a journalist, the Adorno and Henze student also helped shape the face of NZZ music reporting.
Born in Zurich, Ringger studied at secondary school and at the Zurich Conservatory, according to the Musinfo database. In 1956 he attended the Darmstadt Summer Courses. He studied with Theodor W. Adorno and Hans Werner Henze in Naples and also studied conducting in Zurich from 1958 to 1962.
Ringger also studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Zurich and completed his doctorate with a dissertation on Anton Webern. In 1967/68 he was a guest of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in West Berlin. From 1975, he wrote commissioned piano, vocal and chamber music, orchestral pieces, ballets and orchestrations. His works have been performed in London, Manchester, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Berlin, Munich and Tokyo.
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