Zöllner, Heinrich
Zöllner, Heinrich
Zöllner, Heinrich, German composer and conductor, son of Carl Friedrich Zöllner; b. Leipzig, July 4, 1854; d. Freiburg im Breisgau, May 4, 1941. He studied at the Leipzig Cons., where his teachers were Reinecke, Jadassohn, Richter, and Wenzel (1875-77), then went to Tartu, where he was music director at the Univ. In 1885 he went to Cologne, where he taught at the Cons, and conducted choruses. In 1890 he was engaged to lead the Deutscher Liederkranz in N.Y.; in 1898 he returned to Germany. From 1902 to 1907 he taught composition at the Leipzig Cons., and from 1907 to 1914 he was conductor at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp; subsequently settled in Freiburg im Breisgau. He wrote 10 operas, of which the following were produced: Frithjof (Cologne, 1884), Die lustigen Chinesinnen (Cologne, 1886), Faust (Munich, Oct. 19, 1887), Matteo Falcone (N.Y., 1894), Der Überfall (Dresden, Sept. 7, 1895), Die versunkene Glocke (Berlin, July 8,1899), Der Schützenkönig (Leipzig, 1903), and Zigeuner (Stuttgart, 1912). Other works include the musical comedy Das hölzerne Schwert (Kassel, 1897), a great number of choral works with orch., 5 syms., and some chamber music.
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire