Biography
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Born
30 December 1943
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Born In
Wrocław, Dolnośląskie, Poland
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Died
7 July 2019 (aged 75)
Rolf Gehlhaar (born 30 December 1943 in Breslau , Poland) is an American composer.
Gehlhaar is the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953. He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley before moving to Cologne, Germany in 1967 to become assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and a member of his performing ensemble. In 1969, together with Johannes G. Fritsch and David C. Johnson, he founded the Feedback Studio, Cologne, a new-music performance center and publishing house. He later moved to England, where he became in 1979 a founding member of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain.
His works are for both acoustic and electro-acoustic media, though he is best-known for his work with computer-controlled composition, and for his sound installations using a system which he calls Sound=Space.
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