Wolfgang Schoor

Wolfgang Schoor (18 September 1926 – 28 January 2007) was a German composer, who wrote orchestral works, song cycles and chamber music and the music for numerous children's and documentary films and radio plays.

The Cologne-born composer, conductor and song accompanist learned the musical craft in private lessons, at the Rheinische Musikschule Cologne, at the Musisches Gymnasium Frankfurt and at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.

Studies took place with, among others, Otto A. Graef (piano), Helmut Walcha (organ/harpsichord), Walter Henker (bassoon), Kurt Thomas (choral conducting, composition) and Günter Wand (conducting) as well as consultations with Karl Amadeus Hartmann.

He gained national fame in particular for composing the music for the documentary film Das Jahr 1945 and the title melody of the foreign policy GDR magazine Objektiv.

In addition to very numerous pieces of music for radio plays of various genres, Schoor composed song cycles, solo concertos and chamber music works in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.