Wolfgang-Heinrich Ebert was born in Amberg in 1950. He studied education and later social pedagogy. He studied composition in Würzburg under Bertold Hummel, and in Munich under Peter Jona Korn and Rochus Gebhardt; he studied piano under Halina Siedzieniewska-Alberth and violin under Gudrun Schaumann.

He previously worked as a music teacher at, amongst others, Rosenheim Technical College and Fürstätt Primary School. He is now a freelance composer and lives in Kolbermoor. His oeuvre comprises a wide range of works in various genres: songs, chamber music, piano and organ works, West-Eastern piano improvisations on CD, orchestral and choral works, as well as the stage music for Dürrenmatt’s ‘Romulus the Great’. His current West-Eastern style began in 1981/82.