Wolfgang von Schweinitz (born 7 February 1953 in Hamburg) is a German composer of classical music and an academic teacher.
Schweinitz studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, from 1971 to 1973 with Gernot Klussmann and from 1973 to 1975 with György Ligeti.
His opera Patmos, based on the Apocalypse of St John, was premiered in 1990 at the second Munich Biennale.
[3] Since 1997, Schweinitz has been concerned with "[r]esearching and establishing new microtonal tuning and ensemble playing techniques based on non-tempered just intonation"[4] in his compositions.
Schweinitz's music is often characterized by its freely expressive counterpoint exploring the distinctive melodic and harmonic networks of just intonation within a rigorously structured formal logic.