Manfred Schubert (27 April 1937 – 10 June 2011)[1] was a German composer, conductor and music critic.
[2] In his youth, he received violin and piano lessons; he passed his Abitur in Berlin-Köpenick.
[2] Von 1960 bis 1963 war er Meisterschüler [de] for musical composition with Rudolf Wagner-Régeny at the Academy of Arts, Berlin.
[2] From 1962 to 1990, he worked regularly as a music critic for the Berliner Zeitung, after that only sporadically.
From 1984 to 1985, he worked as a lecturer in composition and instrumentation at the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler".