Mathias Spahlinger

Mathias Spahlinger (born 1944 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German composer of contemporary classical music. His work has many different musical influences such as Renaissance music and jazz, musique concrète, minimalism, with elements of noise and improvisation, and has been performed by many artists and groups specialized in contemporary classical music, such as Ensemble Recherche. Since 1990 he is professor of composition and director of the Institute for New Music at the Music Academy of Freiburg.