Eva Schorr (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer.

Biography

Eva Weiler was born in

Crailsheim Crailsheim is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Incorporated in 1338, it lies east of Schwäbisch Hall and southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district. The city's main attractions include two Evangelical churches, a ...

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Hohenzollern, two other historical territories, Würt ...

. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began composing, and at the age of 15 won prizes for composition and organ. She studied music in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

with

Johann Nepomuk David Johann Nepomuk David (30 November 1895 – 22 December 1977) was an Austrian composer. Life and career David was born in Eferding. He was a choirboy in the monastery of Sankt Florian and studied at an episcopal teacher training college in Linz, ...

and

Anton Nowakowski Anton Nowakowski (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1969) was a German organist, conductor and composer. Biography Born in Langenau near Danzig, Nowakowski was a pupil of Alexander von Zemlinsky and Fidelio F. Finke in Prague (composition), Max ...

. She also studied with

Olivier Messiaen Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (, ; ; 10 December 1908 – 27 April 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist who was one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex; harmonically ...

Darmstadt Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...

. She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the ''Stuttgarter Nachrichten'' and had two sons and a daughter She died at the age of 88 in 2016.

Honors and awards

*1961 GEDOK Prize *Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim *Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires

Works

Schorr has composed chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and music for the stage and film. *''Septuarchie'' violin concerto *''Ritornell (Meditation)'' for violin and organ *''Pas de Trois'' *''In der Welt ihr Angst Habte, cantata with violin and organ *''Fantasie, Choral und Fuge'' for organ and oboe *''Wir sind ein Teil der Erde'' choral *''Kyrie'' choral *''Psalm 98'' for organ Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including: *''Initialen F-G-H-S''Kammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Niggemann (soprano flute), Friedrich Milde (oboe), Grete Niggemann (viol), Siegfried Petrenz (harpsichord) (1977) Mitschnitt SDR

References

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