Biography

Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim

Crailsheim

Crailsheim is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 32 km east of Schwäbisch Hall, 40 km southwest of Ansbach in the Schwäbisch Hall district, incorporated in 1338....

, Württemberg

Württemberg

Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....

. 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

Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 with Johann Nepomuk David

Johann Nepomuk David

Johann Nepomuk David was an Austrian composer.He began his musical career in the monastery of Sankt Florian, and was a composition student of Joseph Marx....

 and Anton Nowakowski. She also studied with Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Messiaen was a French composer, organist and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century. His music is rhythmically complex ; harmonically and melodically it is based on modes of limited transposition, which he abstracted from his early compositions and improvisations...

 in Darmstadt

Darmstadt

Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Rhine Main Area.The sandy soils in the Darmstadt area, ill-suited for agriculture in times before industrial fertilisation, prevented any larger settlement from developing, until the city became the seat...

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She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and has a son.

Honors and awards

• 1961 GEDOK Prize
• Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim
• Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires

Works

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

• Septuarchie violin concerto
• Ritornell (Meditation) for violin and organ
• Pas de Trois
• In der Welt ihr Angst Habte, cantata with violin and organ
• Fantasie, Choral und Fuge for organ and oboe
• Wir sind ein Teil der Erde choral
• Kyrie choral
• Psalm 98 for organ

Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including:

• Initialen F-G-H-SKammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Niggemann (soprano flute), Friedrich Milde (oboe), Grete Niggemann (viol), Siegfried Petrenz (harpsichord) (1977) Mitschnitt SDR