Wolfgang Lendle was born in Ludwigsburg (near Stuttgart) and died in Kassel (Hesse). He studied with Hans Josef Volkholz and Antonio Company, as well as with Jiri Jirmal at the Saarbrücken College of Music and in Prague. He attended master classes of Andrés Segovia, Regino Sáinz de la Maza, José Tomás and Alirio Díaz and worked up a considerable part of his earlier repertoire with the German pianist Martin Galling.
Lendle won the 15th national selection for the “Konzerte junger Künstler” series and the competitions Maria Canals (Barcelona 1969) and Francisco Tárrega (Benicasim 1974). In addition to concerts in almost all European countries and in the USA, Canada, and Japan, he has had enthusiastic receptions at music festivals in Cracow, Volos, Schwetzingen, Bordeaux, Mikulov, Bratislava, Cuernavaca (Mexico), Esztergom, Istanbul, Tel Aviv and Havana.
Lendle has been conducted a class of international students at the Kassel Academy of Music since 1985-2013 and regularly held master classes at home and abroad. He became artistic co-director of the renowned Guitar Festival of Esztergom (Hungary) in 1991. Apart from his performing activities, Lendle also composed and arranged. He has moreover made CD recordings for various labels.