Heinrich Zöllner

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Heinrich Zöllner (born Leipzig, July 4, 1854 - Freiburg, May 8, 1941) was a German composer and conductor.

Zöllner's father was composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner. Heinrich studied at the Leipzig Conservatory from 1875 to 1877, also conducting the Cologne Male Voice Choir in 1875. From 1890 to 1898, he lived in the United States, where his cantata, Die neue welt (The New World) won a prize at the 1892 Cleveland Sängerfest. Returning to Leipzig in 1898, he became music director at Leipzig University in 1898 and a professor of composition there in 1902. From 1903 to 1906 he was the editor of the Leipzig Tageblatt. He was conductor of the Flemish Opera in Antwerp from 1907 to 1914; he also taught in Freiburg in 1914.

Zöllner's compositions include 5 symphonies, 5 string quartets, overtures, works for solo and four-hand piano, pieces for men's chorus, and lieder.

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• Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 1011.