Robert H.P. Platz

Robert H.P. Platz (b. August 16, 1951, Baden-Baden) is a German classical composer.

Platz studied music theory, composition (Fortner), musicology (Budde) and piano in Freiburg, Germany between 1970 and 1973. He studied later with Karlheinz Stockhausen at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne [Toop 2001] . In 1977 he took examinations in conducting (Travis) in Freiburg (Toop 2001), and did a series of computer courses at IRCAM in 1980. Since 1990 he has been teaching composition at the Conservatorium Maastricht, Netherlands. Platz gives workshops and masterclasses in Poland, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and the United States, and he has taught at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik.

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Bibliography

* Blumröder, Christoph von. 1980. ‘Nicht einfach, aber neu… zu Robert H.P. Platz’. "Neuland Jahrbuch" 1:94–95.
* Toop, Richard. 2001. 'Platz, Robert H(ugo) P(hillip)'. "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

External links

* [http://www.rhpp.de/ Robert HP Platz website]