Wolfgang Hildemann

Wolfgang Hildemann (June 17, 1925 — August 25, 1995 in Düsseldorf)[1] was a German composer and music teacher[2] who is known for the use of the twelve-tone technique.

Hildemann was born on June 17, 1925, in the city of Cheb (formerly known as Eger or Egerland) which was part of the contentious German Sudetenland.

From 1962 on, he taught at the Odenwaldschule in Oberhambach, a private boarding school following a concept of progressive education after World War Two.

[citation needed] After moving to Mönchengladbach, he continued teaching music in school at the Hugo Junkers-Gymnasium.

Once settled down in Mönchengladbach, Hildemann became a professor and frequent lecture in church music and composition at the University of Applied Sciences Niederrhein (Rhineland).