“I was born in Amberg in the year 1920 as the son of a primary school teacher. I played piano with 4, violine with 8, viola with 13, French horn with 16 years and was neither a child genius nor abnormal in any other sense. I had a wonderful youth, sun, water, air, forests, meadows and tough games, freedom, and unboundedness, all that determined my further live.
Final exam at Oberrealschule in Amberg, forced labour.
Musical and music historical, philosophical, and medical studies in Würzburg trained my general understanding. War, severe injury, and all that followed in hardship and desperation, the change of one’s own existence by 180 degrees and the “in spite of all that start all over again” made me to the person I am today. The systematic confrontation with the complete modernity, also in natural sciences, took place after 1946. Since only by a very clear idea about the own position exists an artistic orientation, a base for one’s own.
Working as an artist today is tough. Over and over again one has to gnawn oneself through a tangled mass of new -isms and slogans before getting head and arms free. Constantly one has to free oneself from the general marsh, and this is the most difficult.”

H.E. Erwin Walther (approx. 1980)
Composer, Conductor,
Avant-gardist, Music teacher

Vita and Biography at www.erwin-walther.de