Heinrich Werner (composer)

Werner was born into a musical family in Kirchohmfeld in the Eichsfeld district of Thuringia, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.

[1] Initially trained at home, he played the organ for the local church at the age of 11 and became a choral singer at Sankt Andreasberg at 15.

Starting in 1821, he studied in Erfurt and took the teaching examination the next year; he then led the chorus at the city's opera house and taught music students.

to have written 84 compositions[citation needed], mostly songs, including a setting of Goethe's poem Heidenröslein.

He died at the age of 32 in Braunschweig in 1833, having become ill with tuberculosis the previous year.