The Austrian flautist Herbert Weissberg was born in Vienna in 1939. He studied the flute with Hans Reznicek at the Vienna Music Academy, where he was a conducting pupil of Hans Swarowsky and a piano pupil of Richard Hauser. He later undertook further study in Music and Theatre at Vienna University, before becoming a principal flautist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. His career has involved him in work in chamber music, as a soloist and as a conductor, with concert tours in Europe, America and the Far East, recordings and broadcast performances.