Frank Michael Beyer

Active as well as a composition teacher, performer and culture functionary, he was one of the leading figures in post-war Berlin musical life.

His avant-garde compositional style is clear, strict and sensitive, rooted in German modernism as well as in Bachian counterpoint and characteristics of human speech.

He spent his childhood in Dresden and on Crete, as well as in Athens and Liechtenstein and received his early training in music from his father.

Johann Sebastian Bach and the Second Viennese School, especially Anton Webern, numbered among the composers who had the greatest influence on Beyer’s musical development.

In 1964, he established the Musica nova sacra series and was a leading member of the Berliner Bach-Tage festival from 1970 to 1985.