was born in Mannheim in August 1754. At the age of 10 he was already playing as a violinist in the court orchestra of Mannheim. In the meantime he is also mentioned there as a double bass player from 1773. For his training as a composer he seems to have been dependent on autodidactic studies for a long time.
He seemed to be autodidact in composing for a long time, because after 1775, it is said that he asked for lessons G.J.Vogler. In 1796 he was finally acknowledged by his work Unterbrochenen Opferfest in Wien. In 1787 he became the leader of the court music in Munich. Two years later, he continued the "Zauberflöte" by Mozart, naming "Das Labyrinth". The text is also by Schikaneder.
In 1811 he founded a Musical Academy in Munich, and in the same year he met C. M. von Weber, whom he treated in part as friendly and in part roughly (Weber calls him "jealous" in a letter). The year 1814 brings to 50 years for winter. Service anniversary the awarding of the Civil Service of the Bavarians. Kroneder was associated with the personal nobility. On October 25, 1825 Winter dies in Munich.
Sextet F major for 2 horns, 2 violins, viola and bass
The two sextets published here for the first time come from a copy from Franz Zwierzina's collection in the Oettingen-Wallerstein library. Zwierzina must have valued these two compositions very much, as when she bought them they were described as "2 Sextours by Kapellmeister Winter of excellent composition". The works were created around 1795.
On March 28, 1803, the Böck brothers played a double concert by Winter in Leipzig. Since the structure of the two sextets is similar to a solo concert form, it is quite conceivable that the double concert was one of the sextets.
