!!!Kaufmann, Dieter

b. Vienna, April 22, 1941, composer, nephew of Armin  Kaufmann. 
1967-1970 studied in Paris, where he was influenced by musique 
concrète and the student revolution. From 1970 lecturer on 
electroacoustic music at the Musikhochschule (now University of Music 
and Performing Arts) in Vienna; since 1990 professor of composition 
and electroacoustics at this institution. 1983-1990 head of the 
composition class at the Carinthian provincial conservatory. Together 
with the actress Gunda Koenig founded the K & K experimental studio in 
1975. Numerous awards.

!Works
Evocation, 1968 (oratorio based on texts by I. Bachmann); 
Volksoper, 1978 ((text by G. Jonke); Fuer Clara. Ein romantisches 
Klavierkonzert, 1985 (piano concerto); Die Reise ins Paradies, 1985 
(vocal theatre, after texts by R. Musil); Bruder Boleslaw, 1989 
(church opera); Dolores - ein Heldenleben?, 1996 (operetta).

!Literature
L. Theiner, Musikalische Dokumentation D. K., exhibition 
catalogue, Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna 1996; G. 
Trimmel, Das K & K Experimentalstudio, 1996.


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