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First name: Heinz
Last name: Winbeck
Dates: 1946
Category: Quartet
Nationality: German
Opus name: Poco a poco? (1974)
Publisher: Bärenreiter
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Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heinz Winbeck (born 11 February 1946) is a German composer and an academic teacher. He is known for five large scale symphonies. Winbeck was born in a small village named Piflas, now part of Ergolding, close to Landshut in Lower Bavaria into a family of farmers. He started his musical studies in 1964 at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, piano with Magda Rusy and conducting with Fritz Rieger. From 1967 he studied conducting at the Musikhochschule München with Jan Koetsier, composition with Harald Genzmer and Günter Bialas. From 1974 to 1978 he worked as composer and conductor at the Theater Ingolstadt, also for the festival Luisenburg-Festspiele. In 1980 he taught at the Musikhochschule München. In 1988 he was appointed professor for composition at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Among his students is composer and pianist Rudi Spring. Winbeck was "Composer in Residence" at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Cabrillo, California. Heinz Winbeck lives in Schambach, a monastery that he and his wife Gerlinde modernized in the 1990s, near Riedenburg in Lower Bavaria. He created five wide-spaced and organized symphonies. The composer commented on his way of composing: "Ich kann nichts anderes sagen, als daß ich buchstäblich nur das zu Papier bringe, das, würde ich es nicht tun, mich zersprengte." (All I can say is that I literally only put down on paper that which, were I not to do so, would cause me to explode.) Winbecks works are published by Bärenreiter.