Willy Hess (composer)

Willy Hess ( born October 12, 1906 in Winterthur, † May 9, 1997 ) was a Swiss musicologist and composer.

Hess studied at the Zurich Conservatory in composition, music theory and piano, as well as musicology at the Universities of Zurich and Berlin. Since 1931, he lived as a freelance music writer and composer in his hometown. He also worked from 1942 to 1971 as a bassoonist in Winterthur City Orchestra. In 1951, he published 14 supplementary volumes to Beethoven Complete Edition. His compositions is quite traditional tonality committed. It includes several sonatas - including for bassoon and small orchestra, for viola and piano, viola and bassoon, viola solo, for flute and cello and flute and piano. The estate of Willy Hess is located in the Central Library Zurich.

Publications

• List of non- published in the complete edition works of Ludwig van Beethoven. Compiled for the completion of the Beethoven Complete Edition, Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Härtel, 1957.
• Non-Party Art - Non-party science. An examination of the contemporary style of music, Tutzing, Schneider, 1967.
• Beethoven Studies, Bonn, Beethoven -Haus, 1972 ( writings on Beethoven research, Series IV, Volume 7 ).
• Beethoven. Studies on his work, Winterthur, Amadeus -Verlag, 1981
• The Fidelio -Buch, Winterthur, Amadeus -Verlag, 1986.
• Behind the Scenes. Moment pictures and anecdotes from the life of an orchestral musician, Winterthur, Ed. Swiss Music, 1992
• From the double face of evil in the art, JF Lehmann, Munich, 1963