Wolfgang Walter Kluge, a composer and conductor born in Jena in 1967, began his studies in Leipzig, where he was trained in piano, composition, correpetition and conducting.

Already at the age of 6 (1973) he was accepted into the children's class of the Academy of Music "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" in Leipzig.

Here, his piano teacher recognized Kluge's highly musical disposition.

His postgraduate studies inevitably broadened his musical education, so that he was not only able to graduate in piano in 1991, but also to take the concert exam in conducting afterwards.

As a conductor and director of studies, he is particularly concerned with young musicians; among other things, he plays a significant role in youth projects at his theater, or makes himself available to young singers and instrumentalists as an accompanist.

In Kluge's compositions, therefore, not only structural and harmonic ideas are expressed, but also a pedagogical moment, which is particularly evident in his "Five Miniatures". Despite a well thought-out and quite audible "construction" in the individual movements, a humorous side of Kluge also comes to the fore here; for example, he uses instruments not only in the sense of the conventional, but the violin and piano also function equally as percussive means of design.