Heinz Winbeck

Heinz Winbeck (born February 11, 1946 in Piflas ; † March 26, 2019 in Regensburg ) was a German composer .

Life

Winbeck began his training in 1964 at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich . His teachers there included Magda Rusy (piano) and Fritz Rieger (conducting). From 1967 he studied at the Munich Music Academy with Jan Koetsier (conducting), Harald Genzmer and Günter Bialas (composition). 1974-78 he worked as a drama composer and conductor at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt and at the Luisenburg Festival . In 1980 he took on a teaching position at the Munich Music Academy; In 1988 he was appointed professor of composition at the University of Music in Würzburg . In the same year he became “composer in residence” at the Cabrillo Festival in California.

Heinz Winbeck lived in Schambach near Riedenburg in a parsonage that he and his wife Gerhilde restored, for which he received a recognition award from the Hypo Foundation. He is the creator of u. a. five large-scale symphonies. His 5th symphony "Now and in the hour of death" reflects sketches for Anton Bruckner's 9th symphony and was premiered by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz under the direction of Dennis Russell Davies on March 1, 2010 in St. Florian Monastery. Since then Winbeck has had a close collaboration with the Landestheater Linz , which culminated in the ballet “Lebensstürme”. Winbeck's works are published by Bärenreiter-Verlag .

honors and awards

• 1974: 1st prize at the composition competition for chamber music in Hitzacker
• 1981: Promotion Prize of the City of Munich
• 1981/82: Scholarship stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris
• 1985: Sponsorship award from the Berlin Art Prize
• 2004: Gerda and Günter Bialas Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 2010: Friedrich Baur Prize

Works

Vocal compositions

• Glowing Puzzles (1970). Song cycle for baritone and piano. Texts: Nelly Sachs
• Grodek (3rd Symphony; 1987/88) for orchestra, alto voice and a speaker. Text: Georg Trakl

Orchestral works

• Sonoscillant (1971). Music for violoncello and string orchestra
• Gegengesang (1973) for orchestra
• Lenau -Fantasien (1979) for violoncello and orchestra
• I think of Haydn (1982). Three fragments for orchestra
• Tu Solus (1st symphony; 1983/85) for orchestra
• 2nd symphony (1985/86) for orchestra
• Grodek (3rd Symphony; 1987/88): see under vocal compositions
• Fourth symphony "De Profundis"
• Fifth Symphony "Now and in the Hour of Death"

Chamber music

• Pas de deux (1971) for flute and xylophone
• Tempi capricciosi (1st string quartet; 1979)
• Tempi notturni (2nd string quartet; 1979)
• Blick in den Strom (1982) for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos
• Jagdquartett (3rd string quartet; 1984)

literature

• Winbeck, Prof. Heinz. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Contemporary composers in the German Association of Composers. A manual. 4th edition, German Association of Composers, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X , p. 1393.

Web links

• www.heinzwinbeck.de The official website
• Heinz Winbeck at Discogs (English)
• Winbeck, Prof. Heinz Composers 'Lexicon of the German Composers' Association
• First symphony / second string quartet, curriculum vitae and list of works , musikrat.de
• First Symphony / Second String Quartet WERGO (English)
• Heinz Winbeck “Now and in the hour of death” / Three fragments using motifs in particular from the finale of the 9th Symphony by Anton Bruckner bruckner-orchester.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thorsten Preuss: A great untimely one. Obituary for BR-Klassik , March 27, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
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