Eva Schorr
Born
Eva Weiler

(1927-09-28)28 September 1927
Crailsheim, Germany
Died20 January 2016(2016-01-20) (aged 88)
Stuttgart, Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPainting, Musical composition
SpouseDieter Schorr

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

Biography

Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. 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 with Johann Nepomuk David and Anton Nowakowski. She also studied with Olivier Messiaen in Darmstadt.

She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and had two sons and a daughter.[1] She died at the age of 88 in 2016.[2]

Honors and awards

Works

Schorr has composed chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and music for the stage and film.

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including:

References

  1. ^ Sadie, Julie Anne; Samuel, Rhian (1994). The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.
  2. ^ "Komponistin Eva Schorr gestorben: Den Kopf voller Klänge - S-zene - Stuttgarter Nachrichten". Stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
  3. ^ "Eva Schorr - Biographie". Komponistinnen.de. 1927-09-28. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2016-01-29.
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