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Mathias Spahlinger

Mathias Spahlinger was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1944. He became a teacher at the stuttgart school of music in piano, theory, early music education and experimental music in 1968, later studying composition with Erhard Karkoschka at the conservatory of music and the performing arts in Stuttgart. In 1978 he became a guest lecturer in music theory at the academy of the arts in Berlin and in 1984, professor of composition and music theory at the conservatory of music in Karlsruhe. In 1990 he became professor of composition and director of the institute for new music at the conservatory of music in Freiburg. He has lived in Potsdam since 2009.