Johannes Rövenstrunck was born in 1949. He received his first instruction in composition from his father, the composer Bernhard Rövenstrunck. Later he took piano and violin lessons, and studied piano in Trossingen and Berlin, where he received special achievement awards.



In 1975 he began working as a jazz pianist and in 1979 moved to the Netherlands. In 1981 he took up composition again and composed his first piano sonata along with over 900 short piano pieces from which the first version of the "Miniatures" was put together. In 2001 he returned to Germany. Since 2004 he has composed numerous larger works and composition cycles.