Sheet music by Lothar Voigtländer

Lothar Voigtländer is a German composer. Voigtländer received his formative musical education between 1954 and 1962 as a choirboy and later choir prefect in the Dresdner Kreuzchor under Rudolf Mauersberger. From 1961 to 1968 he studied conducting with Rolf Reuter and composition with Fritz Geißler at the Leipzig Academy of Music and from 1970 to 1972 as a master student at the Academy of Arts of the GDR with Günter Kochan.

Voigtländer has worked freelance in Berlin since 1973. In 1984 he founded the "Gesellschaft für elektroakustische Musik" together with Georg Katzer. In 1992 he received a visiting professorship at the University of Paris, from 1990 to 1996 he was chairman of the Composers’ Association Berlin, member of the federal board of the German Composers’ Association and deputy chairman of the works committee of GEMA. Since 2001 Voigtländer has held an honorary professor of composition at the Carl Maria von Weber Dresden Academy of Music, and since 2006 he has been a member of the GEMA supervisory board.

Voigtländer founded several concert series in Berlin, including the "Long Night of Electronic Sounds". Electroacoustic works have taken him to the studios of Bourges, Zurich, Basel, Hilversum, Freiburg (WDR), Budapest and Bratislava. Voigtländer has received international prizes and several awards at the festival for electroacoustic music in Bourges (Grand Prix 1996). Voigtländer now lives in Berlin-Mahlsdorf. He is the father of star photographer Richard Voigtländer.

In 2015 he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande.