Paul Wineberger was one of these excellent musicians who were employed about 1´780/90 at the Wallerstein Court by Prince Kraft Ernst, but who were forgotten beside Antonio Rosetti and Josef Reicha. He was born 7 October 1758 in Mergentheim and studied music theory and composition in Mannheim. His teachers were Joseph "Abbé" Vogler and Ignaz Holzbauer. Paul Wineberger learnt playing the violin then changing to cello he replaced Franz Danzi in the Orchestra in Mannheim.
He moved to Wallerstein 1780 and did not accept the employment of duke Friedrich of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. (Rosetti moved there 1789). Wineberger became master of the chapel in 1785. After long years of employment, he moved to Hamburg in 1798 playing at the French Theater and at the "Theater am Gaensemarkt". He was also a teacher, one of his pupils was for instance the pianist Johann Heinrich Clasing (1779 - 1829). Paul Wineberger died 8 February 1821 in Hamburg.
His compositional work is comprehensive, symphonies, sacred music pieces, solo concerti and wind parthias
Parthia E flat major for oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and bassoon
Incorrectly listed in the Rosetti catalog raisonné under B16 with Antonio Rosetti as author:
The Parthia presented here for the first time was created in Wallerstein around 1785. The manuscript with the signature HR III 4 1/2 4°93 is now kept in the Öttingen-Wallerstein collection in the Augsburg University Library. The work exists in further copies in the Donaueschingen Collection, as a sextet under the signature Mus.ms. 1675 and as an octet version under Mus.ms. 1679/4.
The two versions were transmitted without an author being named and were later incorrectly attributed to Antonio Rosetti. Sterling Murray took over this error and classified this work in the Rosetti catalog raisonné (RWV) under number B16, but did not mention the original Wallerstein source with Wineberger's name. Another copy is located under the signature VIII 8538/I in the library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna. It is based on the Donaueschingen copy, here too only the name Rosetti is noted and the two clarinets are replaced by two English horns.
