I am a chemist and served 50 years in this profession as professor of physical chemistry at the Martin-Luther-University Halle and as a scientific adviser for JNC Corporation in Japan. As a child I learnt playing piano, and as student I started playing the clarinet. Since this time I played in several amateur orchestras and in many chamber music groups. Since 1994 I play basset horn, edit music for basset horn, prepare arrangements of basset horn music and publish papers about the history of the basset horn. In cooperation with Thomas Grass I published the book 'Das Bassetthorn. Seine Entwicklung und seine Musik' and a catalogue of music for basset horn, the newest edition of which just appeared in freescores.
