Detlev Müller-Siemens

Detlev Müller-Siemens is a German composer and conductor, born in Hamburg in 1957. He began studying at the Hamburg Musikhochschule in 1970 and was a composition pupil of György Ligeti there from 1973 to 1980. He taught composition at the Basel music academy from 1991 and in Vienna from 2005, and his catalogue takes in opera, orchestral music, concertos and chamber works. His early pieces include variations on a Schubert Ländler for wind and string quintets, Under Neonlight I and a Piano Concerto (1980-81), issued together by Wergo in 1986.