Eva Schorr (28 September 1927 – 20 January 2016) was a German painter and composer. Biography Eva Weiler was born in Crailsheim, Württemberg. Her father was a music and art teacher and gave her lessons in both. At the age of eight she began composing, and at the age of 15 won prizes for composition and organ. She studied music in Stuttgart with Johann Nepomuk David and Anton Nowakowski. She also studied with Olivier Messiaen in Darmstadt. She married Dieter Schorr, music editor of the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and had two sons and a daughter. She died at the age of 88 in 2016. Honors and awards 1961 GEDOK Prize Prize Composition Competition in Mannheim Prizes for 4 International Competitions in Buenos Aires Works Schorr has composed chamber music, orchestral works, choral works and music for the stage and film. Septuarchie violin concerto Ritornell (Meditation) for violin and organ Pas de Trois In der Welt ihr Angst Habte, cantata with violin and organFantasie, Choral und Fuge for organ and oboeWir sind ein Teil der Erde choralKyrie choralPsalm 98 for organ Her work has been recorded and issued on CD including:Initialen F-G-H-S''Kammerensemble Niggemann, Hans-Ulrich Niggemann (soprano flute), Friedrich Milde (oboe), Grete Niggemann (viol), Siegfried Petrenz (harpsichord) (1977) Mitschnitt SDR References 1927 births 2016 deaths People from Crailsheim 20th-century classical composers 20th-century German painters 21st-century German painters German women painters German women classical composers People from the Free People's State of Württemberg 20th-century German women artists 21st-century German women artists 20th-century German composers Women classical composers German classical composers 20th-century women composers