Klaus Thunemann ( German: Klaus Thunemann ; born April 19, 1937 , Magdeburg ) is a German bassoonist and teacher.
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| A country |  Germany |
| Professions | bassoonist , music teacher |
| Instruments | Bassoon |
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Biography
From childhood, he studied piano , and became interested in the bassoon only at the age of 18. He studied in Magdeburg and Berlin , where in 1961 he graduated from West Berlin High School of Music. From 1962 to 1978 he took the place of the first bassoon in the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra ( Hamburg ), and soon gained a reputation as one of the best performers on this instrument and a first-class teacher. Since 1978, he has been teaching in Hanover , later also in Berlin, and also conducts active concert activities, performing as a soloist and in ensembles, makes notes, gives master classes. He collaborates with leading orchestras of the world and soloists, among them oboes, Heinz Holliger and Gregor Witt , clarinetist Karl Leister and other musicians.
Tunemann is the author of a fundamental study on the physiological aspects of bassoon performance, published in the 1995 Medizinische Probleme bei Instrumentalisten: Ursachen und Prävention .