Winfried Bönig
Illustration — Cologne Cathedral Winfried Bönig (born 1959 in Bamberg) is a German organist. Bönig studied organ and church music at the Musikhochschule München with Franz Lehrndorfer from 1978 to 1984. He passed his A exam in 1982 with distinction.
Winfried Bönig

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- 1959 · Bamberg.
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- Germany
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- musician · musicologist · organist · conductor · music educator · university teacher · editor · music arranger
- Education
- University of Music and Theatre Munich
- Languages
- German
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Afterwards he studied musicology in Augsburg (doctorate). Between 1984 and 1998 he was organist of St. Josef in Memmingen. In 1998 he was appointed professor of organ at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne. Among his students is Ulrich Cordes. In 2001 he became organist of Cologne Cathedral.
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Cologne is recorded as a place of activity by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
Winfried Bönig studied at University of Music and Theatre Munich. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Cologne. Employment is recorded with Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
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Winfried Bönig appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as a musician, musicologist, organist, conductor, university teacher, arranger and editor (born 1959). Winfried Bönig was born in 1959 in Bamberg.

Orgelkonzerte in St. Anna, nacheinander in der Klosterkirche und in der Pfarrkirche, Organist der bieden Konzerte Winfried Böning, Domorganist in Köln
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Orgelkonzerte in St. Anna, nacheinander in der Klosterkirche und in der Pfarrkirche, Organist der bieden Konzerte Winfried Böning, Domorganist in Köln
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