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Heinz Winbeck (11 February 1946 – 26 March 2019) was a German composer, conductor and academic teacher. He is known for five large-scale symphonies, which he programmatically subtitled, such as "Tu Solus" and "De Profundis". As a composition teacher in Würzburg, he shaped a generation of students.




Career


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 and composition with Harald Genzmer and Günter Bialas, graduating with the Staatsexamen (State Exam) in 1973. After his studies, he was encouraged especially by Wilhelm Killmayer to find his personal style. Like Wolfgang Rihm and Manfred Trojahn, he turned to a Neue Einfachheit (New simplicity) and subjectivity.
From 1974 to 1978 he worked as a composer and conductor at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt, also for the festival Luisenburg-Festspiele. In 1980 he taught at the Musikhochschule München. In 1981 he studied for half a year at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris on a scholarship from the State of Bavaria. In 1987 he taught ear training and music theory at the Musikhochschule München. In 1988 he was appointed professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg. Among his students were Tobias PM Schneid, the composer and pianist Rudi Spring and Stefan Hippe as well as the composer Ines Lütge, composer and musicologist Daniel Hensel, Alexander Muno, Adrian Sieber, Henrik Ajax and the composer Joachim F.W. Schneider. Winbeck was composer in residence at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Cabrillo, California.
From 1991 Winbeck lived in Schambach near Riedenburg in Lower Bavaria, in a monastery that he and his wife Gerlinde modernized. He died on 26 March 2019 in a clinic in Regensburg. The CD box "Heinz Winbeck – The Complete Symphonies" published by the TYXart records label in 2019 was awarded the OPUS Klassik in August 2020, in the categories "Symphonic recording of the 20th / 21st century", "Editorial performance of the year" and "World premiere recording of the year", nominated and awarded the OPUS Klassik for the "world premiere recording" at the beginning of September 2020.




= Symphonies

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Winbeck revived the genre of the symphony, motivated by the need for existential expression. He composed five large-scale symphonies between 1983 and 2011, comparable to the symphonies of Gustav Mahler. By giving them titles, he reflected topics such as history as a sequence of wars and cruelty, the guilt of the generation of his parents, endangered ecology, the loneliness of humanity in the cosmos, and facing near-death.
Winbeck's First Symphony was premiered in 1984 at the Donaueschinger Tage für Neue Musik and recorded by WERGO, combined with Winbeck's second string quartet, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken. Winbeck's Fifth Symphony "Jetzt und in der Stunde des Todes" (Now and in the hour of death) reflects sketches of Anton Bruckner's unfinished 9th Symphony. The work in three movements of about 55 minutes was played by the Bruckner Orchestra Linz, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies on 1 March 2010 at the Stift St. Florian. The same year Winbeck started a collaboration with the Landestheater Linz, which resulted in the ballet "Lebensstürme" (Storms of life).

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.)




Works


Winbeck's works are published by Bärenreiter.
Vocal

Glühende Rätsel (Glowing enigmas) (1970), song cycle for baritone and piano, Text: Nelly Sachs
Symphonic works

Sonoscillant (1971), music for cello and string orchestra
Entgegengesang (1973), for orchestra
Lenau-Fantasien (1979), for cello and orchestra
Denk ich an Haydn (1982), three fragments for orchestra
Tu Solus (You alone), First Symphony (1983/85)
Second Symphony (1985/86)
Grodek, Third Symphony (1987/88), for orchestra, alto and speaker, text: Georg Trakl
De Profundis (Out of the deep, Psalm 130), Fourth Symphony
Jetzt und in der Stunde des Todes (Now and in the hour of death, from the Ave Maria), Fifth Symphony
Chamber music

Pas de deux (1971) for flute and xylophon
Tempi capricciosi, First String Quartet (1979)
Tempi notturni, Second String Quartet (1979)
Blick in den St.&nrom (1982) for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos
Jagdquartett (Hunting quartet), Third String Quartet (1984)




Awards


1974: First prize in the First composition competition of the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker (Summer Music Days)
1980: Second prize in the Fourth composition competition in Hitzacker
1981: Grant award of the city of Munich
1981/82: scholarship by State of Bavaria for studies of half a year at the Cité internationale des arts
1985: Music prize of the Berliner Kunstpreis
2004: "Gerda-und-Günter-Bialas-Award" of the GEMA Foundation
2010 Friedrich-Baur-Preis
2020 OPUS Klassik
In 1994 Heinz and Gerhilde Winbeck won a prize for the historical renovation by the Hypo-Foundation.




Publications


Baumgartner, Edwin (1 April 2019). "Nachruf – Kreisen um den Tod". Klassik – Wiener Zeitung Online (in German). Retrieved 9 February 2023.
Daniel Hensel, "Heinz Winbeck", in: Komponisten der Gegenwart, Edition text + kritik München, 65. Nachlieferung, 12/2019.(in German)
Wilhelm Killmayer, Musik als Natur. Zur Kompositionsweise von Heinz Winbeck. Zum einstimmigen Melos im Streichquintett "Blick in den Strom", in: Melos. Vierteljahreszeitschrift für Musik, 1984, H. 1, p. 70–81.(in German)
Franz Hummel, Heinz Winbecks apokalyptische Volksmusik, in: Text zur LP Col legno 5517, 1987.(in German)
Siegfried Mauser: Musik als Natur. Zur Kompositionsweise von Heinz Winbeck. Zur Klangschichten-Komposition in den »Lenau-Fantasien", in: Melos. Vierteljahreszeitschrift für Musik, 1984, H. 1, p. 62–70.(in German)
Michael Töpel, "Heinz Winbeck", in: MGG, Supplement, Kassel 22008, 1132–1134.(in German)
Winbeck, Prof. Heinz. In: Wilfried W. Bruchhäuser: Komponisten der Gegenwart im Deutschen Komponisten-Interessenverband. Ein Handbuch. 4. Auflage, Deutscher Komponisten-Interessenverband, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-55561-410-X, p. 1393.(in German)




Discography


Heinz Winbeck – The Complete Symphonies, 2019 TYXart, TXA17091, LC28001
Heinz Winbeck – Erste Sinfonie Tu Solus, Zweites Streichquartett tempi notturni, 1990, WERGO 6509 2, LC 8046
Heinz Winbeck – Denk Ich An Haydn / Entgegengesang, LP, 1982, col legno – 5517, LC 7989
J. F. Kleinknecht*, H. Winbeck*, P. Engel* / Münchener Kammerorchester – Fest-Konzert, "Lenau-Fantasien", 1980, Bayerische Vereinsbank, A-5580 A-1/80S




References






External links


Literature by and about Heinz Winbeck in the German National Library catalogue
Winbeck, Prof. Heinz German composers association
Heinz Winbeck discography at Discogs
Heinz Winbeck / Erste Sinfonie Tu Solus / Zweites Streichquartett tempi notturni Deutscher Musikrat
Heinz Winbeck und Philipp Maintz bei "Ultraschall" in Berlin Takte February 2016
Trauer um Komponisten von Weltrang Donaukurier 27 March 2019
Prof. Heinz Winbeck verstorben Archived 29 March 2019 at archive.today Musikhochschule Würzburg

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