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Markus Zahnhausen
12+ albums
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Markus Zahnhausen (b. Saarbrücken, 1965) is one of Europe's best-known performers of and composers for the recorder. He received his musical training at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and additionally studied musicology and Slavic languages and literature at the universities in Trier and Munich. Since 1988 he has taught recorder and chamber music at the Munich Volkshochschule. In 1994/5 he was a visiting lecturer at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Odense, Denmark, and at the Royal Academy of Music in Copenhagen. As a music journalist he has worked for the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and regularly writes for the Bavarian Broadcasting System and trade journals in Germany and abroad. His performances of early and contemporary recorder music have led him throughout Europe in a great many concert appearances, CD recordings, and radio and television broadcasts, including the Moscow Autumn Festival, the St Petersburg Spring Festival, and performances in Tatarstan and the Urals. His musical oeuvre includes orchestral works, choral pieces, chamber music, and above all pieces with a special emphasis on the recorder. Zahnhausen is chief editor of the Modern Recorder Library Series from Möseler in Wolfenbüttel and has inspired many new works for the recorder from composers of the stature of Rodion Shchedrin, Harald Genzmer, Günter Kochan, Hans Stadlmair, Walter Mays, Boris Tishchenko and Ruth Zechlin. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-S
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Five Pieces for Soprano Blockflöte and Percussion: Cantabile
392Pieces for Flute and Drum: IV. Canon
303Pieces for Flute and Drum: V. Canon
264Pieces for Flute and Drum: I. Canon
215Jahreszeichen (Signs of the Seasons): Fruhlingsmusik (Spring Music): I. Im Marzwald (The Woods in March)
206Pieces for Flute and Drum: II. Canon
1775 Stücke für Sopran-Blockflöte und Schlagzeug: Musik für Kinder IV, No. 5, S. 144: Andante con moto, mit Alt-Xylophon und Castagnetten
158Stücke für Flöte und Schlagzeug: Ruhig
149Five Pieces for Flute and Percussion: Tranquillo
1410Five Pieces for Soprano Blockflöte and Percussion: Allegro Moderato II
13albums
Zahnhausen: Solo Recorder Music
Boismortier / Schickhardt / Telemann: Recorder Music
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Musik Für Kinder & Other Works By Carl Orff
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Orff: Orff-Schulwerk, Vol. 1: Musica Poetica
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Orff-Schulwerk, Vol. 1: Musica Poetica
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Orff: Orff-Schulwerk, Vol. 2: Musik Für Kinder
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German & French Recorder Concertos
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Flauto dolce solo: A Musical Journey Through Time
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The 99 Most Essential Autumn Classics
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Gries, Tamara: Woodworks
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Solo recorder music by Markus Zahnhausen
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Odense Symphony Orchestra / Christoph Poppen, Michala Petri