Winter, Peter (von) (1754–1825)

German composer. He wrote over 40 works for the stage, including Das Labyrinth (1798), a sequel to Mozart's Magic Flute. His later works are mainly church music.

Winter played as a boy in the court orchestra at Mannheim, where he was a pupil of Georg Vogler and met Mozart in 1778. He moved with the court to Munich, but went to Vienna 1780–81 and studied with Salieri. On his return to Munich he produced the first of his many operas, Helena und Paris, and became vice-Kapellmeister to the court in 1787 and Kapellmeister in 1798, but was periodically absent on tour.

Works Opera Helena und Paris (1782), Der Bettelstudent (1785), I fratelli rivali (1793), Das unterbrochene Opferfest (1796), Das Labyrinth (sequel to Mozart's Magic Flute, 1798), Maria von Montelban (1800), Tamerlan (1802), La grotta di Calipso (1803), Il trionfo dell' amor fraterno, Il ratto di Proserpina (1804), Zaira, Colmal (1809), Maometto II (1817), Scherz, List und Rache and Jery und Bätely (both libretti by Goethe), and about 20 others.

Ballet Heinrich IV (1779), Inez de Castro, La mort d'Hector and six others.

Oratorio Der Sterbende Jesus, La Betulia liberata, and others;

Choral Masses and other church music; cantata Timoteo, o Gli effetti della musica and others.

Orchestral three symphonies, Schlachtsymphonie and overtures; concerted pieces for various instruments.

Other songs, part songs.