Bernd Alois Zimmermann has been played on NTS shows including Around the World in 7 Record Stores, with Tratto II first played on 7 May 2024.

Born in Cologne, Germany in 1918. Enigmatic and difficult to categorise, Zimmerman was an early exponent of the stylistic pluralism so prevalent in what is now labelled post-modernism, but which, during his lifetime, was not considered to occupy the vanguard of the new.

He studied at Bonn, Konigsdorf and Berlin Universities while working as a labourer and playing for dance bands, and later taught at Cologne University and Hochschule.

His music made use of electronics, serialism, and quoted freely and…