who was Bernd Alois Zimmermann..?
Profile: Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG, 2009 Bernd Alois Zimmermann was born on 20 March 1918 in Bliesheim near Cologne. After 1937 he studied music at the Musikhochschulen in Cologne and Berlin as well as German and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Cologne and Berlin. His most influential teachers of composition were Heinrich Lemacher and Philipp Jarnach in Cologne. From 1957 (being appointed professor in 1961) he taught composition and conducted a seminar in film, theatre and radio music at the Cologne Hochschule für Musik. He was a scholarship student at Villa Massimo in Rome in 1957 and 1963, received the “Großer Kunstpreis von Nordrhein-Westfalen” in 1960, was granted membership of the West Berlin Academy of Arts (1965), and was awarded the Prize of Arts of the City of Cologne in 1966. Zimmermanns work covers compositions for orchestra (including a symphony, ballet music and concertos), his famous opera Die Soldaten and other vocal music, chamber music, solo works, as well as
