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Johannes Kotschy, composer, theorist, sound former. Born in 1949 in Bavaria. He studied pharmacy in Munich, as well as piano chamber music and composition at the Mozarteum Academy Salzburg. Since 1981, he is a self-employed composer; freelancer at the Institute for Basic Musical Research at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
In 1986, he presented the naturetone system developed by himself at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse; he was initiator of the Heidelberger Naturetone Symposia and developed a New Keyboard which facilitates playing microtones in an easy manner (US- and European patent). He founded the Eigenverlegerverband österreichischer Komponisten together with other composers in Salzburg (Klaus Ager, Herbert Grassl, Boguslaw Schaeffer, Andor Losonczy et al.) and was president till 1994 of the IG Komponisten Salzburg which has been founded by him (together with Klaus Ager and Herbert Grassl). From 1998 thru 2009, he was president of the International Ekmelic Music Society (currently its vice pesident).
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