Zöllner, Heinrich (1854–1941)

German composer, son of the composer Carl Friedrich Zöllner (1800–60). He studied at the Leipzig Conservatory. In 1878 he was appointed teacher at Dorpat University in Tartu, Estonia. He subsequently conducted at Cologne, and later lived in the USA (1890–98). In succession to Kretzschmar , he was appointed music director of Leipzig University, a post he held until 1906. He then conducted the Flemish Opera at Antwerp from 1907, and retired to Freiburg in 1914.

Works Vocal operas Frithjof (after Tegnér), Faust (on part of Goethe's text, 1887), Der Überfall (on a story by Wildenbruch, 1895), Die versunkene Glocke (on Hauptmann's play, 1899), and others; festival cantata The New World and others.

Instrumental five symphonies (1883–1928), overture Under the Starry Banner.