Konrad Boehmer

Konrad Boehmer is a Dutch composer and writer of German birth (Berlin 1941). His music reflects his Marxist political agenda, which is made explicit in many of his writings from the late 1960s and 1970s (e.g., Boehmer 1970). A self-declared member of the Darmstadt School (Boehmer 1987), he studied composition in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gottfried Michael Koenig, and philosophy, sociology, and musicology at the University of Cologne, where he received a PhD in 1966. After receiving his doctorate, he settled in Amsterdam, working until 1968 at the Instituut voor Sonologie, Utrecht University. In 1972 he was appointed professor of music history and theory at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. His compositions characteristically employ serial organization or montage, sometimes with elements of jazz and rock music (as in his opera Doktor Faustus and the electronic Apocalipsis cum figuris). In other works, such as Canciones del camino and Lied uit de vert Marxist songs serve as basic material. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.