Hans Georg Zambona

Hans Georg Zambona (born March 19, 1928 in Bochum ) is a German composer, pianist and writer.

life and work

Zambona is a student of Walter Gieseking .

Zambona became known as a practicing artist in particular through his membership in the Duo Classique , in which he went on numerous concert tours around the world together with the violinist Karl-Heinz Schwarz between 1960 and 1985. When EMI two discs of are Duo Classique with works by Mozart , Schubert , Schumann and Zambona published (1974/78). Particularly noteworthy here is the recording of the very rarely heard sonata fragment in C major KV 403 by Mozart.

In 1954, Hans Georg Zambona and Karl Heinrich Veerhoff received the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Düsseldorf.

His opera "Casanova in Trient" and his ballet "Bahnsteig 5" were premiered in 1969 in Ulm . Zambona has also written other operas, symphonies, songs and chamber music, in particular numerous works for violin and piano. His seven-movement “Hildegardis String Quartet” in honor of Hildegard von Bingen was premiered in 2001 in Bingen by the Tamen String Quartet . The music of the composer, whose model is the music of Mozart, is based on an unrestricted primacy of melody. The atonal , but never avant-garde, works always remain within the framework of an “expanded” and modified classical order.

Zambona emerged as an author in the 1970s with the cultural-philosophical work “Boundaries of the Soul - Path and Fate of European Culture” (Düsseldorf, Econ 1972), later the key novel “Lämmer und Wölfe” (Frankfurt, Haag & Herchen 1998) appeared.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Georg Zambona in the catalog of the German National Library