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Jurij Winar (German name: Georg Wiener , born November 20, 1909 in Radibor , † May 11, 1991 in Bautzen ) was a Sorbian composer, music teacher and promoter of Sorbian music.

Life

Winar was born as the son of a postman in Radibor, graduated from high school in Bautzen and studied education, folklore and music in Dresden from 1929 to 1932 . He initially worked as a teacher in various cities and from 1946 to 1951 as a lecturer at the Sorbian Teacher Training Institute in Radibor. From 1951 he was the first director of the newly founded State Ensemble for Sorbian Folk Culture , which today bears the name Sorbian National Ensemble . From 1960 to 1979 he was director of the Bautzen music school.

Even in his time as a teacher he was active as a choir director and from 1933 was the main conductor of the choirs of the Association of Sorbian Choral Societies, which was dissolved in 1937. After 1945 he composed popular songs, including to texts by Jurij Brězan , and on August 12, 1945 conducted a joint concert by the Radibor Meja choir with an officer choir of the Red Army in the Bautzen theater. He published Sorbian songbooks, founded new choirs and composed film scores, cantatas and a Sorbian peasant suite (1947). He made a decisive contribution to the renewal of the Sorbian musical life after the Second World War. He was also known as an author of humorous short stories and poems under the pseudonym Jurk .

Together with the writer Jurij Brězan and the painter Martin Nowak-Neumann , Winar was awarded the National Prize of the GDR III in 1951 . Awarded class for art and literature.

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personal data
SURNAME Winar, Yuri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiener, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sorbian composer and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Radibor
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1991
Place of death Bautzen