Eugène Wintzweiller


Eugène Wintzweiller was a French composer, Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1868.

Life

Born in Wœrth, Wintzweiller was the son of Louis Wintzweiller, a teacher in his native town and Madeleine Hirsch.
He first studied with Joseph Wackenthaler, Kapellmeister, then organist from 1833 to 1869 at the Strasbourg Cathedral which sent him to the École Niedermeyer in Paris, a school of classical and religious music, which then trained church organists, choir conductors and Kapellmeisters. A scholar of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Strasbourg, he studied there at the same time as Gabriel Fauré. He obtained his first piano runner-up in 1861, a second prize for piano and an honorable mention for the organ in 1862.
Wintzweiler studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in Ambroise Thomas' and François Benoist's class. He obtained a first counterpoint and fugue runner-up and a second organ runner-up in 1867, a first organ runner-up in 1868.
He obtained a Second First Grand Prix de Rome in musical composition on 4 August 1868, shared with Alfred Pelletier-Rabuteau. He began his stay at the Villa Medici in Rome in January 1869 and ended it in June 1870.
Wintzweiler died in Arcachon.

Selected works