Lothar Windsperger

Lothar Windsperger (22 October 1885 – 30 May 1935) was a German composer as well as long-standing literary editor and publisher at Schott. Life and career Born in Ampfing, Windsperger, son of a well-known organist and school teacher, received his first basic musical education from his father, who he lost at the age of five. Windsperger nevertheless remained true to music, even when he first began his training as a primary school teacher in Rosenheim, where he had moved with his mother in 1898, at a . In 1900 he finally changed to the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. There he was taught composition and harmony by Josef Rheinberger and Rudolf Louis, among others, and piano by August Schmid-Lindner. Later he continued his studies with Hugo Riemann in Leipzig and work weeks with Hermann Abendroth at the Rheinische Musikschule in Cologne. In February 1905 Windsperger appeared in Munich with an orchestral concert in which he performed his one-hour, one-movement “Sinfonie der Sehnsucht”. According to the judgement of H. Teibler in the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung of 24 February 1905 (p. 151), however, he thereby “only provoked the unwillingness of all well-meaning people