Walter Zimmermann
Walter Zimmermann, born in Schwabach in 1949, is a German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works performed and recorded across Europe. From 1968 to 1970 he was pianist in the Ars Nova ensemble in Nuremberg and studied composition with Werner Heider; from 1970 to 1973 he studied with Mauricio Kagel and at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. In 1974 he went to the United States, first to study computer music in Hamilton, New York, then to travel the country talking with twenty three American composers, conversations published as Desert Plants.
Walter Zimmermann, born in Schwabach in 1949, is a German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano and electroacoustic works performed and recorded across Europe. From 1968 to 1970 he was pianist in the Ars Nova ensemble in Nuremberg and studied composition with Werner Heider; from 1970 to 1973 he studied with Mauricio Kagel and at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht. In 1974 he went to the United States, first to study computer music in Hamilton, New York, then to travel the country talking with twenty three American composers, conversations published as Desert Plants.
