Grete Hinterhofer

Grete Hinterhofer (born July 18, 1899 in Wels , † June 27, 1985 in Vienna ) was an Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer.

Her father was a teacher, her mother a piano teacher and composer. At the age of nine, Grete Hinterhofer received her first private piano lessons from Cäcilie (von) Frank (1851–1936?), Who ran an illustrious musical salon in the 1st district and was the piano accompanist for the Hellmesberger Quartet and Arnold Rosé . From her she received extensive artistic training and made some public appearances that were discussed in local newspapers. Cäcilie (von) Frank's apartment was also an important meeting point for the Viennese musical world. One of Grete Hinterhofer's classmates was the Schönberg student Vilma von Webenau .

She also took piano lessons at the Vienna Music Academy with Hugo Reinhold in 1909/10 and with Emil von Sauer in 1914 . In 1917 she passed the state examination for piano and then worked as a concert pianist. Later she studied at the Vienna Music Academy from 1924 to 1927 organ with Franz Schütz and music theory with Franz Schmidt . From 1927 she taught there herself, from 1932 as a professor - until her retirement in 1969. Her students included the composers Andre Asriel , Erich Urbanner , Rolf Wilhelm and Wolfgang Gabriel , the organist Bernhard Billeter and the pianist Harald Ossberger . Hinterhofer performed as a concert pianist a. a. under the direction of Richard Strauss . She dedicated herself to the performance of works by contemporary composers such as Karl Schiske , whose rhapsody for piano she played in 1950 in the Brahms Hall of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music .

literature

• Eva Marx, Gerlinde Haas: 210 Austrian women composers from the 16th century to the present: biography, work and bibliography: a lexicon . Residenz, Salzburg 2001, p. 464. ISBN 3-7017-1215-8 .
• Susanne Wosnitzka: "Common need strengthens the will" - networks of women musicians in Vienna , in: Annkatrin Babbe and Volker Timmermann (eds.): Musicians and their networks in the 19th century . Oldenburg 2016 (= series of publications by the Sophie Drinker Institute (Ed. Freia Hoffmann), vol. 12). ISBN 978-3-8142-2338-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Barbara Prize: Female teachers and students at the Reich University of Music in Vienna 1938–1945. Studies - Professional Development - Emigration . University of Vienna, Vienna 2009, p. 121, 298 , urn : nbn: at: at-ubw: 1-29855.04811.518165-0 (424 p., Univie.ac.at [PDF; accessed on October 5, 2019] dissertation).
2. ↑ Susanne Wosnitzka: "Common need reinforces the will" - networks of female musicians in Vienna , in: Annkatrin Babbe and Volker Timmermann (eds.): Female musicians and their networks in the 19th century . Oldenburg 2016 (= series of publications by the Sophie Drinker Institute (Ed. Freia Hoffmann), vol. 12), p. 141.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Barbara Boisits: Hinterhofer, Grete. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 ., As of May 6, 2001