Ruth Zechlin

Ruth Zechlin (born 22 June 1926 – died 4 August 2007) was a German composer. Ruth Oschatz was born in Grosshartmannsdorf, where she began piano lessons at five years old, and wrote her first composition at the age of seven. From 1943 to 1949 she studied music theory with Johann Nepomuk David and Wilhelm Weismann, church music and organ with Karl Straube and Günther Ramin and piano with Rudolf Fischer and Anton Rohden at the Music Academy in Leipzig.