About
Known best for his virtuoso French horn performances, this musician played with such prestigious orchestras as the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Dortmunder Philharmoniker. He also worked as a music teacher and composer.
Before Fame
During his early teenage years, he played jazz drums and studied voice; at the age of seventeen, he discovered his passion for the horn and subsequently trained at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg.
Trivia
He was the 1964 winner of the famous ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Germany.
Family Life
Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, he later settled in Essen, where he taught for three decades at the Folkwang University of the Arts.
Associated With
He and pianist Helmut Roloff were both important German musicians and music teachers of the Twentieth Century.
