Biography
Ernst Helmuth Flammer (born 1949) is a German composer.
From 1973–1979 he studied Counterpoint and Music Theory with Peter Förtig and between 1972–1980 Musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht in Freiburg, where he completed his doctoral dissertation on the subject of “Politically motivated music as a compositional problem, as exemplified by Luigi Nono and Hans Werner Henze”. From 1976 onwards he also studied Composition with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough, as well as taking lessons from Paul-Heinz Dittrich. Since 1977 he has published in several specialist journals on the topics of New Music and has addressed various aesthetic questions.
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