Winfried Zillig, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Winfried Zillig

German composer, musicologist and conductor

Date of Birth: 01-Apr-1905

Place of Birth: Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Dec-1963

Profession: composer, conductor, film score composer, musicologist, music theorist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Winfried Zillig

  • Winfried Zillig (1 April 1905 – 18 December 1963) was a German composer, music theorist, and conductor. Zillig was born in Würzburg.
  • After leaving school, Zillig studied law and music.
  • One of his teachers there was Hermann Zilcher.
  • In Vienna he was a private pupil of Arnold Schönberg, later following him to Berlin.
  • His first compositions date from this time. In 1927 he became the assistant of Erich Kleiber at the Berlin State Opera.
  • A short time later he became repetiteur to the Oldenburg Opera.
  • In the years 1932 to 1937, he acted as repetiteur and Kapellmeister at the Düsseldorf Opera.
  • Positions followed as Kapellmeister in Essen and at the beginning of the 1940s as the musical leader of the Posen Opera.
  • After the end of World War II he became the first Kapellmeister of the Düsseldorfer Oper.
  • In the years 1947 to 1951 he occupied the position of conductor at the HR-Sinfonieorchester.
  • He also acted as guest conductor of the Radio Éireann Symphony Orchestra in the early months of 1953.
  • After 1959 he led the musical division of Norddeutscher Rundfunk.
  • Zillig died in 1963 in Hamburg. Winfried Zillig was very productive as a composer.
  • His output includes operas, oratorios, passions, choral music, serenades, string quartets, and other Chamber music, as well as lieder and suites.
  • He was also responsible for completing the score of the oratorio Die Jakobsleiter, which his former teacher Arnold Schönberg had left unfinished, at the request of Schönberg's widow.
  • Furthermore, he made a name for himself as a music theorist with an emphasis on twelve-tone technique.

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