Klaus Brandstetter (b. 2001) is a German composer and music scholar. He completed his Abitur in 2020 in Speyer, specialising in Latin and Music, and graduated from Heidelberg University in 2023 with a Bachelor of Arts in Musicology and Economics. His undergraduate thesis examined the opera fantasies on Bellini’s Norma and Mozart’s Don Giovanni by Sigismund Thalberg and Franz Liszt, combining analytical and comparative perspectives. From 2022 to 2025, he pursued additional studies in Japanese at Heidelberg University. Since March 2024, he has been studying Composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Mannheim. During the 2025/26 academic year, he is an Erasmus+ scholar at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn.
His professional engagements include an internship at the National Theatre Mannheim, where he assisted in a new production of Weber’s Der Freischütz, collaboration on a scholarly edition of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, and participation in the Contemplay 2025 festival in Vilnius. His compositions, ranging from choral and piano works to chamber and orchestral music, have been performed in public concerts. He has received the “Jugend komponiert” Sponsorship Prize (2021) and the Rhineland-Palatinate Music Prize (2020).