Ernst Horn is a German musician who played a crucial part in founding the bands Deine Lakaien, Qntal and Helium Vola. Biography Ernst Horn studied classical music in Munich, Freiburg and Hamburg and worked as a conductor in state theatres in Karlsruhe and Oldenburg, he was also a conductor and a pianist in the Bavarian State Theatre in Munich. In 1985 he gave up his career as a conductor so that he could devote himself fully to composing his own music, he also became a specialist on electronic music. He became famous trough the band Deine Lakaien which he founded in 1985 with Alexander Veljanov; the popularity of this band has far exceeded the borders of the German speaking countries. He has also been successful with many other projects in which he took part - in addition to his activity in the bands Qntal and Helium Vola which play medieval music he composes and plays electronic music for dramas and radio plays.