Category: ComposerDocs

Rainer Bach

Rainer Bach

Rainer Bach (* December 14, 1947 in Bielefeld) is a German country singer and pedal steel guitarist. He was a founding member of the group Truck Stop, released solo albums, and worked as a dentist. Musical Career Rainer Bach began playing the piano at the age of seven. In April 1963, he discovered the Beatles and started learning to play the guitar, initially on an acoustic guitar. During his school years, he founded a beat band called The Misfits, which performed in front of audiences Read more [...]
Tobias Riether

Tobias Riether

Tobee (* June 24, 1985 in Geislingen an der Steige; real name Tobias Riether[3]) is a German party pop singer, concert promoter, and dentist. In his youth, Tobias Riether learned to play several instruments and took singing lessons. At 15, he founded a rock cover band, and at 18, he won a talent competition in party music and became the lead singer of a show band from Baden-Württemberg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p97MZpu-Hmk He achieved his first success in 2006 with his self-written Read more [...]
Hans Wolf

Hans Wolf

Hans Wolf, born May 31, 1958 in Braunschweig, is a German physician, concert pianist, and multimedia artist. From 1977 to 1985, he studied medicine and worked as a medical officer. He performed numerous cabaret shows at holistic medicine conferences in Bad Herrenalb. He completed classical piano studies with Prof. Edith Picht-Axenfeld in Freiburg, receiving his diploma. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYAWURw8OtE Premieres of his own compositions at the Munich Festivals for Contemporary Read more [...]
Christoph Wagner

Christoph Wagner

Few people know the musician Christoph Wagner. Anyone who listened to him improvise on the piano understood that it was this immediate proximity to music that motivated and drove him to create a science for musicians. Born on May 20, 1931, in Marburg, Christoph Wagner grew up in Weilburg/Lahn in a culturally diverse and stimulating home. Despite only sporadic piano lessons due to the war, the boy soprano developed into a sensitive pianist who mastered the great works of piano and violin literature. Read more [...]
Kwame Boaten

Kwame Boaten

Kwame is something quite unusual, a collaboration between an African trumpeter and metal musician (Kwame Boaten) and a Swedish guitarist who has previously devoted himself primarily to classical music (Carl Ljungström). They met a few years ago in a music student dormitory in London. This would be the beginning of "Volatile." On the album cover, I see a blurry image of a dark-haired guy with dreadlocks. Yes, I think it's another Swedish hip-hop artist hanging out with Ken and the guys. Oh, Read more [...]
Richard Bauer

Richard Bauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGISleU-QnM Seine erste Liebe, sagt der heute (2025) 72-Jährige, war jedoch immer die Musik. Und das begann schon im Kindesalter. Wenn seine älteren Schwestern Klavierunterricht hatten, dann hörte er zu und spielte die Melodien später selbst nach – ohne Noten, nur nach Gehör. Aber auch an der Gitarre war Richard Bauer talentiert: Schon 1972 hatte er einen Auftritt in der Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, mit der damals in der Region bekannten Band „Studio Read more [...]
Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda

Krzysztof Komeda (born Krzysztof Trzciński; April 27, 1931 in Poznań – April 23, 1969 in Warsaw) was a Polish jazz pianist and composer of jazz and film music of international renown. According to Jan Wróblewski, Komeda occupies a similar musical rank in Poland to Chopin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NnFPllvyh8 In his youth, he received piano lessons in Ostrów Wielkopolski (German: Ostrowo), where he lived from 1946 to 1951. Later, he became a student at the Conservatory in Read more [...]
Elisa Kafritsas

Elisa Kafritsas

My name is Elisa, named after Beethoven's "Für Elise," a piece my mother loved. I started piano lessons at the age of 6, supported by my Korean mother and Sicilian father, and music has always been a big part of my life. After studying dentistry 🦷 and working as a dentist, I returned to the piano in 2020 after a 21-year hiatus.🎹🎵 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsY9IvdUSI Elisa Kafritsas played her debut piano concerto at the age of 7, won prizes at the "Jugend musiziert" Read more [...]
Peter Menger

Peter Menger

We are Deborah and Peter Menger, and we met in a choir in 1995. It's only fitting that we've been making music together for many years. We perform in choirs, bands, other vocal ensembles, and as a duo in Germany and internationally. For the past 12 years, we've enjoyed making music together, especially with our four children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxFTWGyYyN0 Since 2016, we have been leading the Hüttenberg Children's Choir together with a great team and a fantastic manager. Read more [...]
Arthur Wolff

Arthur Wolff

Personendaten name:Wolff, Arthurborn:28. Febr. 1885 Guttentag (Oberschlesien)/Dobrodzień, Deutschland/heute: Polendied:23. Dez. 1945 Shanghai, Chinamother:Eugenie Wolff, geb. Straßmann (gest. vor 1939)father:Berthold Wolff (gest. vor 1939), Dr., Arztmatrimony∞ 23. Dez. 1916 Berlin Elisabeth Wolff, geb. Heine (geb. 13. Okt. 1889), Exil 1939 in Shanghaimother language:Germannationality:deutsch, 1941? staatenlosgrave:Shanghai Berufe/Tätigkeiten overview:doctor, conductor, pianist, Read more [...]