# Eva Schorr

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**Eva Schorr** (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer.

## Biography

Eva Weiler was born in [Crailsheim](/source/Crailsheim), [Württemberg](/source/W%C3%BCrttemberg). 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](/source/Stuttgart) with [Johann Nepomuk David](/source/Johann_Nepomuk_David) and [Anton Nowakowski](/source/Anton_Nowakowski). She also studied with [Olivier Messiaen](/source/Olivier_Messiaen) in [Darmstadt](/source/Darmstadt).

She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the *Stuttgarter Nachrichten* and had two sons and a daughter.[1] She died at the age of 88 in 2016.[2]

## Honors and awards

- 1961 GEDOK Prize
- Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim
- Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires[3]

## 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-S*Kammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Niggemann (soprano flute), Friedrich Milde (oboe), Grete Niggemann (viol), Siegfried Petrenz (harpsichord) (1977) Mitschnitt SDR

## References

1. Sadie, Julie Anne & Samuel, Rhian (1994). [*The Norton/Grove dictionary of women composers*](https://books.google.com/books?id=IvoQQU1QL_QC&q=Eva+Schorr&pg=PA409). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393034875. Retrieved 4 October 2010.

1. ["Komponistin Eva Schorr gestorben: Den Kopf voller Klänge - S-zene - Stuttgarter Nachrichten"](http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.komponistin-eva-schorr-gestorben-den-kopf-voller-klaenge.a2e3b88b-0ce4-4a6d-8f4f-abddb0f60d3a.html). *Stuttgarter-nachrichten.de*. Retrieved 2016-01-29.

1. ["Eva Schorr - Biographie"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719053134/http://www.komponistinnen.de/komponistinnen/schorr/schorr_bio.htm). *Komponistinnen.de*. 1927-09-28. Archived from [the original](http://www.komponistinnen.de/komponistinnen/schorr/schorr_bio.htm) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2016-01-29.

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