Ingo Nugel
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Composer
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who together with his brother Henning founded Nugel Bros. Music. Together they wrote and produced music for games, short films and advertisements.
After being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma
Hodgkin's lymphoma, previously known as Hodgkin's disease, is a type of lymphoma, which is a cancer originating from white blood cells called lymphocytes...
, he died on 25 March 2007 aged 30 years.
Biography
Ingo Nugel was born in Dortmund on December 11, 1976. A classically trained pianist himself, he and his brother Henning founded Nugel Bros. Music in 1999. In the same year they completed their first game soundtrack for the action-strategy game “War Commander” developed by Independent Arts. From then on he and his brother composed music for several highly successful game titles as e.g. Football Manager 2002 (Electronic ArtsElectronic Arts
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Germany), The Moment of Silence
The Moment of Silence
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(House of Tales/The Adventure Company
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), Darkstar One
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(Ascaron
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/Ubisoft
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) or “The Settlers II 10th Anniversary
The Settlers II 10th Anniversary
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Edition” (Funatics/Ubisoft
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). His music is also featured in several short films, e.g. Dronez (German Film School).
In 2004 "The Moment of Silence
The Moment of Silence
The Moment of Silence is an investigative thriller adventure game developed in 2004 by German video game developer House of Tales.- Story :The game is set in the year 2044 in downtown New York City, in a future with many Orwellian influences...
" was awarded the third price in the category “Best Soundtrack” at the German Game Developer Awards. The game soundtrack was also released on CD and distributed by ZYX Music
ZYX Music
ZYX Music is a German record label which was founded in 1971 by Bernhard Mikulski. Until 1992, the label's name was Pop-Import Bernhard Mikulski. The label specialized in disco and early house music. Founder Bernhard Mikulski is credited with coining the term Italo disco in the 1980s...
music that year.
Ingo Nugel and his brother also composed the music for the award winning Audi R8 (road car) microsite.
Nugel developed a Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2005, but by the end of the year, chemotherapy seemed to have beaten it. However in November 2006 the illness returned, and Nugel went back to hospital. While there, he developed a severe pneumonia, and was moved into intensive care on March 16, 2007. In his last days, an infection took over before he died on 25 March 2007 at the university hospital in Essen. He was only 30 years old.
In August 2007 a suite of the music from „The Settlers II 10th Anniversary
The Settlers II 10th Anniversary
The Settlers II 10th Anniversary Edition is a remake of the classic real-time strategy game The Settlers II. It was announced in July 2006. The Settlers II 10th Anniversary Edition features up-to-date 3D graphics and new gameplay additions...
Edition“ was performed on occasion of the Games Convention
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2007 at the Gewandhaus
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in Leipzig. This year's "Symphonic Game Music Concert
Symphonic Game Music Concert
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" which features many other famous game scores was dedicated to him.