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Q62961
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Sound · Berlin, Germany
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Klaus Doldinger (born 12 May 1936) was a German saxophonist, especially well known for jazz and as a composer of film music. He was the recipient of 1997's Bavarian Film Awards. He died October 16, 2025 in Icking, Germany. Doldinger was born in Berlin, and entered a Düsseldorf conservatory in 1947, originally studying piano and then clarinet, graduating in…
Known for
- Life After the NeverEnding Story — Self2024
- Jazzfieber - The Story of German Jazz2023
- Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story — Self - Das Boot Music Composer2021
- Meine Welt ist die Musik — Self2019
- ManDoki Soulmates: Wings Of Freedom — Self2019
- Klaus Doldinger's Passport - Live in Leverkusen 2019 — Musiker2019
- Open Wounds – A Journey through German Genre Films2017
- Udo Lindenberg: Stärker als die Zeit - Live2016
- Sing! Inge, Sing! — Himself2011
- Tonspur – Der Soundtrack meines Lebens — Self2010
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Germany
- Active from
- 1936
- Active to
- 2025
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- Official website
- klaus-doldinger.com
- Image
- Klaus-doldinger-on-stage.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- Klaus Doldinger
- date of birth
- 1936-05-12
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- Klaus Doldinger
- date of death
- 2025-10-16
- social media followers
- 5140
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Categories
1936 births2025 deaths20th-century German jazz composers20th-century German male composers20th-century German saxophonists21st-century German composers21st-century German jazz composers21st-century German male composers21st-century German saxophonistsACT Music artistsGerman film score composersGerman jazz saxophonistsGerman male film score composersGerman male jazz composersGerman male saxophonistsJazz fusion musiciansMusical groups from BerlinMusicians from BerlinOfficers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyPassport (band) membersPost-bop jazz musiciansRobert Schumann Hochschule alumni