Frank Michael Beyer

Frank Michael Beyer (1928-2008) was a German composer, organist and teacher from Berlin. His music, shaped by Bach and Webern, ranges from organ and chamber pieces to orchestral works such as Diaphonie and Griechenland. He taught composition for decades and founded the Institute for New Music at the Berlin University of the Arts. Beyer studied church music and composition in Berlin, with Ernst Pepping for composition and Joseph Ahrens for organ, and worked as a church musician from 1950 to 1963. In 1964 he started the Musica nova sacra series.