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Ingomar Grünauer - born 1938 in Melk - belonged in the fifties to the composition class at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Vienna under the aegis of Karl Schiske, which also was attended by Ivan Eröd Kurt Schwertsik, Otto Zykan, Gösta Neuwirth and other renowned Austrian composers of the second half of the twentieth century.
At the beginning of the sixties, he took over the position of musical director at the Municipal Theater of Heidelberg, and was responsible as a composer for numerous stage musicals, before he moved to the Upper Palatinate as a teacher, and later became active in Wiesbaden. In the summer of 1974, a guest lectorate for dramatic music brought him to Brazil. In 1982 he was then employed at the University of Frankfurt, where he taught as professor of aesthetics and communication until his retirement in 2001. His works focus on stage music and music theater, which have been performed internationally and throughout the German-speaking countries.