Klaus-Peter Schneegass (www.klaus-peter-schneegass.de - also on Wikipedia), composer and author, who was born in Bremen on 14 October 1962, studied composition and piano at the University of the Arts Bremen from 1983 to 1990 with Luciano Ortis and Hans-Joachim Kauffmann and composition at the University of the Arts Berlin from 1998 to 2000 as a master student of Friedrich Goldmann; in 2004 he pursued additional studies at the Mozarteum Salzburg with the Spanish composer Cristóbal Halffter. His compositions have had numerous performances in Europe (e.g. at the Festival of Contemporary Music in Orléans, France 2002; or on the occasion of the 14th World Saxophone Congress in Ljubljana, Slovenia 2006) and Japan (e.g. in Osaka and Kyoto). This was followed by various concert recordings as well as radio and CD productions of his own works for Radio Bremen, Bayer-ebsrecords, Hastedt Musikedition and Tonstudio Ölmühle; scholarship at the Cité des Arts Paris 2003 and lecturer at the Osaka University of Arts (Japan) 2004.

His cultural studies led Klaus-Peter Schneegass to participate in the "net.futuristic" exhibition "MoNoMo - mostra non mostra" on 6 December 2008 in Rome, where his interactive "SurFuDaistic number poems" (collages) were exhibited.
As a composer, he has received various first and second prizes (including 1st prize in the composition competition of the Baden-Württemberg Wind Music Association in 2001 and 2nd prize - 1st prize was not awarded - in the 7° Concorso Internazionale di Musica "Città di Pavia") as well as awards in literary competitions as an author ("Das Gedicht lebt" - anthology published by R. G. Fischer Frankfurt/Main with prize-winning poems for the Frankfurt Book Fairs 2012-2014, including the cycle "Reiseführer durch die Endzeit" and the equally grotesque and dark cycle of poems "Das Übel der Nachrede"); his first complete book entitled "Baumfällarbeiten an der Weltesche - Hinterfragende Worteinwürfe zu unbeantworteten Tatbestandsaufnahmen in Traum und Zeit" (2013) was also published by R. G. Fischer.

The majority of his compositions were published by Lothringer Verlag Dessau.