Konrad Boehmer (24 May 1941 – 4 October 2014) was aGerman-Dutchcomposer,educator, andwriter.

Boehmer was born inBerlin. A self-declared member of theDarmstadt School,^[1] he studied composition inCologne withKarlheinz Stockhausen andGottfried Michael Koenig. At theUniversity of Cologne he studiedphilosophy,sociology, andmusicology, earning a PhD in 1966.^[2] Then he settled inAmsterdam, working atUtrecht University'sInstitute for Sonology until 1968. In 1972, he became professor of music history and theory at theRoyal Conservatory of The Hague.^[2]

His compositions characteristically employserial organization or montage, sometimes with elements ofjazz androck music (as in his operaDoktor Faustus and the electronicApocalipsis cum figuris). In other works, such asCanciones del camino andLied uit de vert, Marxist songs serve as basic material.^[2]

In 2001, theHolland Festival commissioned Boehmer to write a composition for the rock bandSonic Youth, which they performed at both concerts during that festival in theStadsschouwburg Amsterdam.^[3]

On 10 August 2014, while on holiday in the south of France, he suffered acerebral infarction. He was taken toAmsterdam, where he died on 4 October 2014.^[4]

• Variation for chamber orchestra (1959–61)
• Position for electronic sounds, vocal sounds, and orchestra (1960–61)
• Zeitläufte for eight instruments (1962)
• Information (1964–65)
• Aspekt electronic music (1964–66)
• Canciones del camino for orchestra (1973–74)
• Schrei dieser Erde for percussion and tape, (1979)
• Doktor Faustus opera (1980–83)
• Apocalipsis cum figuris, electronic music (1984)
• Woutertje Pieterse for nine vocalists and orchestra (1985–1987)
• Il combattimento for violin, cello, and orchestra (1989–90)
• Et in Arcadia ego for string quartet (1992)
• Kronos protos for 14 instruments (1995)
• Nuba for flute, viola and harp (1998)
• Orpheus Unplugged (1999–2000) piano and tape
• Ouroboros for piano (2002)
• Doktor Fausti Höllenfahrt for orchestra (2006)

• Anon. 2014. "Componist Konrad Boehmer (73) overleden". Elsevier.nl (5 October, accessed 5 October 2014).
• Boehmer, Konrad. 1987. “The Sanctification of Misapprehension into a Doctrine: Darmstadt Epigones and Xenophobes”, English translation by Sonia Prescod Jokel.Key Notes 24:43–47.
• Sabbe, Herman. 2001. "Boehmer, Konrad",The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited byStanley Sadie andJohn Tyrrell, vol. 2. London: Macmillan Publishers.
• Sanders, Rik. 2001. "Konrad Boehmer: 'Computer kan componist niet vervangen'".Computable (8 June). Accessed 20 December 2009.

• Boehmer, Konrad. 1967.Zur Theorie der offenen Form in der neuen Musik. Darmstadt: Edition Tonos. (Second edition 1988.)
• Boehmer, Konrad. 1970.Zwischen Reihe und Pop: Musik und Klassengesellschaft. J & V Musik. Vienna and Munich: Jugend und Volk.
• Boehmer, Konrad. 2009.Doppelschläge: Texte zur Musik, vol. 1: 1958–1967. Quellentexte zur Musik des 20. /21. Jahrhunderts 12.1, edited by Stefan Fricke and Christian Grün. Saarbrücken: Pfau.ISBN 978-3-89727-407-5.
• Boehmer, Konrad. 2014.Doppelschläge: Texte zur Musik, vol. 2: 1968–1970. Quellentexte zur Musik des 20. /21. Jahrhunderts 12.2, edited by Stefan Fricke and Christian Grün. Saarbrücken: Pfau.ISBN 978-3-89727-467-9.

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