Klaus Hinrich Stahmer

Klaus Hinrich Stahmer is a German composer and musicologist, born in 1941 in Stettin (now Szczecin, Poland). He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg from 1969 to 2004, becoming professor in 1977, and founded the Tage der Neuen Musik festival in Würzburg. Much of his later work is written for East Asian and Arabic instruments, often alongside Western ones. Stahmer studied at Dartington College of Arts in England and in Hamburg and Kiel. He was president of the German section of the ISCM more than once.