Wolfgang Fortner

Wolfgang Fortner was a German composer and conductor born in Leipzig in 1907. He studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory and later became a professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. Fortner's music is characterized by its use of atonality and serialism, and he is considered one of the most important composers of the post-World War II era. He died in Heidelberg in 1987.

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