Hans-Ludwig Schilling


Hans-Ludwig Schilling was a German composer and music educator.

Life

Born in Mayen, Schilling was musically instructed from early childhood on by his grandfather Johann Stoll. At the age of 13, he had studied music theory with the Cologne professors Heinrich Lemacher and violin in Bram Eldering's class. He studied composition with Harald Genzmer, Paul Hindemith, Nadia Boulanger, Antoine-Elisée Cherbuliez and Wolfgang Fortner. In addition to piano and bassoon, he also completed a degree in philosophy, literature and musicology. After earlier teaching positions, he has been head of the composition-theory-musicology department at the Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg since 1973.

Work

Focal points in the compositional œuvre for all musical genres except opera are wind music, organ music and choral music. There are also 16 solo concertos with orchestra as well as symphonic wind music among other orchestral works.
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