Windhagauer, Horst

Horst Rudolf Windhagauer was born in 1955 in Gmunden, Upper Austria, and grew up in Nuremberg, Germany. He has lived with his family near Bamberg since 1998. He studied cello, piano and composition in Nuremberg and Wuerzburg, Germany with Claus Reichardt and Prof. Julius Berger. He was a member of several chamber music ensembles, such as the "Trio élégiaque", the "ARPA trio" and the "Nuremberg Cello Quartet", and since 1998 has been a member of the "Bamberg Chamber Orchestra". In the years from 2012-2017 he has created several chamber works, in part commissioned works for the internationally renowned String Quartet "Giocoso Quartet".
In 2016 he founded the "Quartetto Cellistico Bamberg". He has written and edited a number of works for this ensemble. Since 1988 he has been teaching cello at the Musischen Gymnasium in Erlangen, Germany.
As a composition student of Gottfried Mueller - a Bach specialist - he developed a very personal musical language as a composer throughout the years to come, which attune to both the Baroque models, a moderate postmodern style, as well as the late Richard Strauss. His works are published under the title CANTARCO EDITION from the Publisher Musikproduktion Höflich München.