Zillig, Winfried (Petrus Ignatius), German
Zillig, Winfried (Petrus Ignatius), German
Zillig, Winfried (Petrus Ignatius), German conductor and composer; b. Würzburg, April 1,1905; d. Hamburg, Dec. 17, 1963. He studied at the Würzburg Cons, and with Schoenberg in Vienna (1925-26) and in his master classes at the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin (1926-28). After working as répétiteur in Oldenburg (1928-32), he conducted in Düsseldorf (1932-37); was music director of the Essen Opera (1937-40), the Poznan Opera (1940-43), and the Düsseldorf Opera (1946-47); then was chief conductor of the Hesse Radio in Frankfurt am Main (1947-51). He was director of the music division of the North German Radio in Hamburg from 1959 to 1963.
Works
dramatic: Opera Rosse (Düsseldorf, Feb. 11,1933); Das Opfer (Hamburg, Nov. 12,1937); Die Windsbraut (Leipzig, May 12, 1941); Troilus und Cressida (1949; rev. 1963); Bauernpassion, television opera (1955); Die Verlobung in St. Domingo, radio opera (1956); Das Verlöbnis (1962; Linz, Nov. 23, 1963). Other: Incidental music. ORCH.: Choralkonzert (1924); Overture (1928); Concerto for Orchestra (1930); Concerto for Cello and Wind Orch. (1934; rev. 1952); Tansymphonie (1938); Concerto in One Movement (1948); Violin Concerto (1955); Fantasia, Passacaglia, and Fugue on the Meistersinger Chorale(1963). OTHER: Chamber music; choral pieces; solo vocal works.
Writings
Variationen über neue Musik (Munich, 1959; 2nded., 1963, as Die neue Musik: Linien und Porträts; Von Wagner bis Strauss).
Bibliography
S. Hilger, Autonom oder angewandt?: Ze den Hörspielmusiken von W. Z. und Bernd Alois Zimmermann (Mainz, 1996).—
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire