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Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski

Born: 21st June 1949, Oldenburg, Germany

Died: 5th January 2013, Oldenburg, Germany

Nationality: German

Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski was a German composer.

Schmidt-Kowalski was born at Oldenburg in 1949. He studied composition at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Berlin under Frank Michael Beyer (1971) and at the Musikhochschule Hannover under Alfred Koerppen (1972–77). In the course of his studies, Schmidt-Kowalski turned from the musical avant-garde and chose to write in a more traditional vein. Since the late 1970s he worked as a freelance composer, mainly writing commissioned works for soloists and events.

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