About
Nikolaus Brass (born 1949, Lindau) is a modern German composer.
After leaving school in 1968, he began to study medicine in Munich and at the same time take private composition lessons from Peter Kizevetter at the Munich Higher School of Music and Theater. Brass continued his medical education in Scotland, and completed by passing the corresponding state exam at the Free University of Berlin. There in Berlin, Brass continued to study composition at the Berlin University of the Arts with Frank Michael Bayer. Later, he also took private lessons from Helmut Lachenman in Hanover.
After several years of work in the hospital in 1982, Brass retired from medical practice and headed the editorship of a medical newspaper.
From 1980 to 1986, Brass was a regular participant in the Darmstadt New Music Courses. Since 1981, his compositions began to sound at various festivals and performed at competitions. In 1999 he was awarded the Munich Incentive Music Prize.