Born in Berlin, 1920. Between 1945 and 1967 Bernhard Krol was a horn player with leading orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Studied with Schoenberg's disciple, Josef Rufer in Vienna. However, Krol uses the tonal system, looking back towards composers such as Reger or Hindemith. His music is characterized by a freshness of music-making, marked rhythms and, as he once said, 'heaven's gift of the beauty of sound'. Varied classical models as in his Figaro Metamorphoses on three motifs of a canzona from Mozart's opera, or his cheerful Fledermaus Variations in which he transforms Strauss's themes into a completely new musical structure. Has written numerous works for solo instruments and orchestra.
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