Wolfgang Schulz (26 February 1946 – 28 March 2013) was an Austrian concert flutist and university lecturer. He was principal flutist of the Vienna Philharmonic and professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
From 1979 Schulz taught flute as a concert subject at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Among his students were Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer, Christian Landsmann, Elizabeth Pring, Günther Voglmayr, , Krzysztof Kaczka, Michael Martin Kofler, Karin Leitner and Helmut Trawöger.
In 1983 he founded the "Ensemble Wien-Berlin", a woodwind quintet consisting of soloists from the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, to which he belonged throughout his life. From 1996 he conducted his own festival "Bonheur musical" in Lourmarin, France. In 2000 Schulz founded the music ensemble "Camerata Schulz", which performs in changing line-ups and to which some members of the traditional family of musicians also belong.Vienna Philharmonic: Prof. Wolfgang Schulz retired. Article from 9 December 2011, retrieved on 27 December 2019. With his son Matthias Schulz, also a flautist and since 2005 engaged in the Vienna State Opera Stage Orchestra, he performed together again and again.
Schulz died on 28 March 2013 at the age of 67 years in the Vienna General Hospital. Flötenvirtuose Wolfgang Schulz gestorben. Zählte zu den namhaftesten Flötisten seiner Zeit; APA-Artikel auf derstandard.at vom 29 March 2013 Wolfgang Schulz, der wahre Zauberflötist, ist tot; Artikel in Die Presse dated 30 March 2013.Clemens Hellsberg: Wolfgang Schulz verstorben. Article dated 30 March 2013, retrieved on 27 December 2019.
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