1908

Born in Constance (Lake Constance) on the 25th January as son of the sculptor Anton Stingl and his wife Maria Gutemann.

1914-1917

Attendance of the extended elementary school in Constance.

1918-1927

Attendance of the high school in Constance.

1927-1931

Study of mathematics and physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg.

1928

During the summer semester study of the guitar with Prof. Jakob Ortner in Vienna. First guitar concert in Constance.

1929-1932

Several concerts in Freiburg, Constance and Waldkirch, organized by the student minister Alfred Beer.

1931-1933

Teacher training in Freiburg.

1933-1934

Concerts in Darmstadt, Freiburg and Constance.

1933-1973

Instructor at the seminar for nursery school teachers.

1934 

Premiere of the Trio op. 8 for violin, viola and and guitar at the 64th Tonkuenstlerfest in Wiesbaden.

1935

Concert tour through Germany.
Guitar works in the Cologne Broadcast Center: Serenade
G Major from Ferdinand Carulli; Duo op.12 with Ida Gille.
Meersburg: Serenades in the old castle.
Zurich: Concert with the zither quartet.
Frankfurt: Performance of the Advent music op.13 in the Reichssender.

1935-1942

Member of the Chamber Trio Freiburg (Edgar Lucas, Ernst Duis, Johannes Abert) with viola da gamba and lute. Concerts in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Berlin, Kiel, Flensburg, Eutin, Plön, Dresden, Rom, Turin, Catania; also militiary concerts.

1936

Concerts in Rastatt, Freiburg and Oberkirch.

1937 

Luise Walker performs the variations on a swabian song op.16 in Vienna.
Performance of Ida Gille in Wuppertal-Elberfeld: Minuet A Major and variations on an old linen weaver song op.14b.
Concert in Cologne with Ida Gille, Trio op. 8.
Publication of the collection 'Das Spielbuch für Gitarre (Vol. I, II)', Schott Mainz.

1938

Guest instructor for artistic lute play and guitar at the musical seminar of the city of Freiburg.
Concert with lute and guitar music in Munster: Milan; Ochsenkuhn; Neusidler; Bach; Sor; op.15a, op.15c; op.17; Turina; Tarrega.

1939 

Upper Rhine Music Festival in Donaueschingen: Concert of the Chamber Trio Freiburg.
Marriage with Lotte Morlock, Karlsruhe.

1940

Birth of the first son Anton.

1940-1942

Deferment until the completion of the orchestral variations on a theme of Schubert (Supervisor: Friedrich Wilhelm Lothar)
Concerts for the Wehrmacht.

1942 

Birth of the first daughter Veronika.

1942-1949

Military service und Prisoner of war in Russia.

1949

Late returnee on the 31st of October.

1950-1951

Concerts in Freiburg, Berlin, Waldkirch and Mainz.

1951

Birth of the second son Georg.
Collaboration in the making of the 15-volume guitar study series “Das Gitarrespiel” of guitar player Bruno Henze from Berlin. (Several of the out-of-print-volumes can be purchased here.)
Earlier guitar works are published in the Mitteldeutscher
Verlag, Halle.

1952

Stingl joins the small orchestra of the Suedwestfunk (SWF) conducted by Willi Stech.
On 18.3. became in the Southwest radio the sonnet for Baritone, French horn and guitar as well as the small Suite op. 28 for guitar sent.
Concerts in Freiburg and Lahr.

1953

Meeting with Andres Segovia in Basle (German).
Birth of the second daughter Madeleine.
Premiere of the Missa gregoriana op. 33 in Freiburg-Günterstal.

1954

Publication of the Children song book 'Der Kleinen Lobgesang' (German).
Premiere of the Psalm Cantata “O, Lord. my God, as you are large” to the 100jährigen anniversary of the orphanage in Freiburg-Günterstal

1954-1955

Concerts in Baden-Baden, Freiburg and Waldkirch.

1955

Premiere in Baden-Baden: Pierre Boulez, Le Marteau sans Maître with Anton Stingl, guitar (Conductor: Hans Rosbaud)
Additional concerts: 1955 Zurich (Rosbaud); 1956 Paris, Geneva (Boulez); 1957 Vienna, London, Berlin, Zurich (Boulez); 1958 Paris Unesco, Brussels, Duesseldorf (Boulez); 1959 Hamburg (Boulez); 1962 Madrid, Darmstadt, Basle, Paris Odéon (Boulez); 1964 Köln, Rome, Perugia, Strassburg, Recording Session (Boulez); 1965 Basle (Master course; Boulez); 1968 Baden-Baden (TV recording; Boulez); Avignon (Gilbert Amy); London (Promenade concerts; Boulez); 1970 Paris (Boulez); 1972 Paris (Stereo recording; Boulez).

1955

Meeting with Andres Segovia in Locarno and Basel (German).

1958

Recording for Radio Beromuenster: Mauro Giuliani, Robin Adair; Improvisation on “Es geht ein dunkle Wolk herein' op. 40; Three pieces (children songs).

1959

Concert in Cologne: Anton Webern, Two Songs op.19 (Conductor: P. Boulez).
Heidelberg: Hans Werner Henze, Kammermusik 1958 (Conductor: Francis Travis).

1961

First LP with guitar music (Christophorus).
Concerts in Hamburg: Pierre Boulez, Pli selon pli (Conductor: P. Boulez); Premiere: Hans Ulrich Engelmann, Polyphonica for orchestra op.17 (Conductor: Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt).

1962

Concert in Heidelberg: Argyris Kounadis, Trio for flute, viola and guitar (with Wolfgang Fortner).
Concerts in Freiburg: Sor, Variations on Mozart; Concert of the small orchestra of the SWF (Conductor: Willi Stech).

1963

Concert in Paris: Wlodzimierz Kotonski, Trio for flute, guitar and percussion.
Concerts in Freiburg: Pierre Israel-Meyer, Rallentando for guitar, violin, viola, cello, baritone and piano (with Arghyris Kounadis); Volkmar Fritsche, Chansons et Improvisation sur “L’Anabase” von Saint-John Perse (conductor: V. Fritsche)
Concert in Darmstadt: Works from Arnold Schönberg and Pierre Boulez.

1967

Concert in Ludwigsburg: Günter Bialas, Eichendorff song book for mixed choir, solo soprano and two guitars (with Hermann Josef Dahmen).

1968

Concert in Freiburg: Folk Songs Of The World (with Oksana Sowiak).
Concert in Heidelberg: Günter Becker, 'Con buen ayre' for flute and solo guitar.
Freiburg: Exhibition in the music library on occasion of Stingl's 60th birthday.
Concert in Roggenburg: Monteverdi, Vesper for the Blessed
Virgin.

1969 

LP: Oksana Sowiak sings Ukranian Folk Songs (harmonia mundi).

1970

Winding up of the small orchestra of the SWF..
Further employment in the symphony orchestra of the SWF.
Concerts in Freiburg: Paganini, Terzetto concertante D Major;
Two Rhapsodic Sketches op. 49a; Sor, Phantasy C Major.op. 12; Schubert, Quartet G Major.

1971-1981

Lecturer for guitar at the college of music in Freiburg.

1971

Premiere of the youth mass “Peace On Earth”; hereafter choirmaster of the parish of the Holy Trinity in Freiburg.
LP: Yiddish Songs (with Oksana Sowiak) (harmonia mundi)
Concert tour with Wolfgang Hock (violin) through the Cevennes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
Concert in Karlsruhe: Heinz Friedrich Hartig, Perché für mixed choir and guitar op. 28 (Conductor: H. J. Dahmen).

1974

Meeting with Julian Bream in Freiburg.
Award of the order of merit by the leader of the Federal German state Baden-Württemberg Filbinger.

1976

Award of the professor title.

1980

Translation of the Segovia Guitar book.
LP: German Folk Songs (with Oksana Sowiak) (harmonia mundi).

1980-1981

Concerts with the 'Freiburger Barocksolisten'.

1982 

Interview with Joachim Bohnert in: 'Gitarre + Laute', 3/82.

1983

Article: ”Anton Stingl 75 Jahre” in: 'Gitarre + Laute', 2/83.

1984

LP: Bach, The Two-Part Inventions (with Ilse Breitruck) (Wergo).

1985

LP: Bach, Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Stingl (harmonia mundi)
Freiburg: Solo- and Duo works for guitar with Ilse Breitruck.

1988 

LP: Songs from Eastern Europe (with Oksana Sowiak) (harmonia mundi).
“"The fourth man in the Trio" - Anton Stingl to 80. Birthday
in: Gitarre + Laute 1/88.

1991 

Publication: The water and riverside moss of the Freiburgian Dreisam and its tributaries (1985-1988) in: Mitteilungen des badischen Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz
Severe illness and recovery.

1992-2000

Strong commitment to the parish of the Holy Trinity in Waldsee, Freiburg (concerts, reading club, travels).

1999

Pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella, Spain.

2000

Anton Stingl dies after a short and severe illness on the 6th of April in Freiburg, Germany.