Bartz, Joseph

Joseph Bartz is a professional musician and composer living in Cologne, Germany. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he studied tuba and composition at the Universtiy of Wisconsin Oshkosh. He furthered his musical studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne with two post-graduate degrees and continues to work as a freelance musician, teacher for low brass, and composer in Cologne. Over the years he has written numerous poems in English and in German. His first book "Songs of the Journey" is a small collection of his English poems and Lieder des Lebens is a collection of his German poems....