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'''Jörg Widmann''' ({{IPA|de|ˈjœʁk ˈviːtman|lang|De-Jörg Widmann.ogg}}; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living [[contemporary classical music|contemporary]] composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the [[Hochschule für Musik Freiburg|University of Music Freiburg]], he is composition professor at the [[Barenboim–Said Akademie]]. His most important compositions are the concert overture ''[[Con brio (Widmann)|Con brio]]'', the opera ''[[Babylon (opera)|Babylon]]'', an oratorio ''[[Arche (oratorio)|Arche]]'', [[Viola Concerto (Widmann)|Viola Concerto]], ''[[Kantate (Widmann)|Kantate]]'' and the trumpet concerto ''[[Towards Paradise (Widmann)|Towards Paradise]]''. Widmann has written musical tributes to [[Classical period (music)|Classical]] and Romantic composers. He was awarded the [[Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art]] in 2018 and the [[Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg]] in 2023. He was Gewandhaus Composer of the [[Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig]] and Composer in Residence for the [[Berlin Philharmonic]].

 

Widmann was born on 19&nbsp;June 1973 in [[Munich]], the son of a physicist and a teacher. His sister is the German classical violinist [[Carolin Widmann]].<ref name="Festival 2023 e781">{{cite web | title=Double Acts: Carolin and Jörg Widmann | website=[[The Strad]] | date=13 October 2023 | url=https://www.thestrad.com/playing-hub/double-acts-carolin-and-j%C3%B6rg-widmann/17019.article | access-date=13 October 2023 | archive-date=23 December 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223065658/https://www.thestrad.com/playing-hub/double-acts-carolin-and-j%C3%B6rg-widmann/17019.article | url-status=live }}</ref> He first took clarinet lessons in 1980.{{sfn|Bruhn|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wWi8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 9]}} Four years later he became a composition student of Kay Westermann.{{sfn|Bruhn|2013|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=wWi8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA9 9]}} Widmann attended the secondary school {{ill|Pestalozzi Gymnasium|de|Pestalozzi-Gymnasium München}} in Munich.{{efn|Hans Werner Henze commissioned the school opera ''Absences''.<ref name="e995">{{cite web | title=Komponisten der Gegenwart (KDG) | website=nachschlage.net | url=https://www.nachschlage.net/search/kdg/J%C3%B6rg+Widmann/637.html | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=6 February 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206211000/https://www.nachschlage.net/search/kdg/J%C3%B6rg+Widmann/637.html | url-status=live }}</ref>}}<ref name="Landeshauptstadt München-2019">{{cite web | title=Musikpreis 2021 | website=Landeshauptstadt München | date=10 December 2019 | url=https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Musik/Auszeichnungen/Musikpreis/2021.html | language=de | access-date=25 August 2021 | archive-date=25 August 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825133016/https://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/Stadtverwaltung/Kulturreferat/Musik/Auszeichnungen/Musikpreis/2021.html | url-status=live }}</ref> He later studied composition with [[Hans Werner Henze]], [[Wilfried Hiller]] in Munich and [[Heiner Goebbels]], [[Wolfgang Rihm]] in Karlsruhe.{{sfn|Fein|2005|pp=13–34}}