Hans Winterberg

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Hans Winterberg before 1970

Hans Winterberg (born March 23, 1901 in Prague , Austria-Hungary ; † March 10, 1991 in Stepperg , Germany ) was a Czech-German composer . Winterberg was a Jew of German and Czech culture. He came from a Jewish family in Prague and emigrated to Bavaria in 1947.

Life

At the age of nine, Winterberg became a student of the concert pianist Therèse Wallerstein . He studied music at the German Academy for Music and Performing Arts in Prague (composition with Fidelio F. Finke , conducting with Alexander von Zemlinsky ) and at the Prague State Conservatory with Alois Hába . In 1939/40 he was still a fellow student of Gideon Klein for a time . His mother Olga Winterberg, born on March 3, 1878, was deported to Theresienstadt on July 30, 1942. On August 4, 1942, she was transported to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp , where she was murdered immediately upon arrival. A fate that befell many of Winterberg's close relatives.

Hans Winterberg before 1950

For a long time Hans Winterberg worked as a répétiteur in Brno and Gablonz an der Neisse and composed.

On May 3, 1930, he married Maria Maschat (Roman Catholic). The marriage was divorced on December 2, 1944 "within the meaning of the Reich Marriage Act". On January 26, 1945, he came to the Theresienstadt ghetto as a Jew . He was liberated on May 8, 1945 and initially went back to Prague. There, only a few works were up to his move to Germany in 1947. Hans Winterberg had the Czechoslovak citizenship Czechoslovakia and requested in 1946 a passport. In a letter from the Ministry for School Education and Enlightenment to the Foreign Ministry it says: "The Ministry confirms that the composer Hans Winterberg intends to go on a trip abroad to look for his handwritten compositions, which he had made in various European countries before leaving for the Terezin concentration camp On behalf of the minister, it is therefore recommended that the named person be issued with a passport valid for all European countries. "

He first came to Riederau am Ammersee, where his divorced wife and daughter were stranded before. He then went to Munich as a lecturer at Bayerischer Rundfunk and as a music teacher at the Richard Strauss Conservatory . He then moved to Bad Tölz in 1969 , where he withdrew and devoted himself exclusively to composition. Despite his negative experience, he repeatedly confessed to universalism as “a kind of bridge between western culture (including German) and that of the east”. He counted himself “as an artist in that group of the one-sidedly disadvantaged.” Winterberg also painted. Painting and music were the two artistic elements that characterized Hans Winterberg from childhood. From 1981 he spent the last years of his life in Stepperg / Upper Bavaria, but was buried in Bad Tölz / Upper Bavaria. Bad Tölz marked the last fertile years of his musical career.

Winterberg was a member of the Esslingen Artists' Guild .

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His compositional work consists almost exclusively of instrumental music. He composed orchestral works, a large number of chamber music pieces and piano works, radio play music and vocal music. In the course of his development he dealt with the works of Wagner and Claude Debussy as well as with the Vienna School , the works of Schönberg , Alexander von Zemlinsky , Alois Hábas , Béla Bartóks and Igor Stravinsky . He was able to assimilate and develop all these suggestions in his style without following the dodecaphonics .

As a result, he was stylistically independent and particularly focused on polyrhythmics , which he mastered masterfully, condensing and interweaving the various rhythmic structures that ran at the same time in such a way that an inseparable unity, a harmony, emerged as a sound impression. The polyrhythm left its mark not only in piano concertos and compositions, but also in ballets and orchestral works. In addition to this great musical vitality, his work continues to be characterized by adherence to thematic-motivic principles in the melody conception and to the thematic-motivic processing.

Hans Winterberg 1921

Winterberg composed mainly in extended, chromatised tonality, not twelve-tone and not microtonal.

In his short biography, Winterberg describes his style as "Originally based on Arnold Schönberg , finally found a way of polyrhythmic and polytonal character."

When the Bayerische Rundfunk broadcast Winterberg's first symphony “Sinfonia dramatica” with the Munich Philharmonic under Karl List, he himself described this work as a premonition of the catastrophe of the Second World War.

At the end of 1954, the pianist Magda Rusy performed Winterberg's piano works on a concert tour in Austria and Yugoslavia, among others, and received great acclaim.

Particularly noteworthy are a first performance on November 13, 1950 (concert for piano and orchestra; Agi Brand-Setterl, piano) and three world premieres on 17/18. January 1949 in Mannheim (Sinfonia dramatica), from February 12, 1952 (suite for string orchestra) and from June 13, 1956 (symphonic epilogue) the Munich Philharmonic under the direction of Fritz Rieger .

The artistic estate is now in the Sudeten German Music Archive in Regensburg. The estate was not accessible to the public or to research until July 17, 2015, due to a stipulation within the framework of the transfer agreement with the Sudeten German Music Archive.

In November 2018, the first record ever - with chamber music by Hans Winterberg - was released by Toccata Classics in London.

List of works

Orchestral works

  • Symphonic Dances for Orchestra: Voices of the Night. Waltz (1935)
  • Symphonic Suite for Orchestra (1938)
  • I Symphony (Sinfonia dramatica) (1936)
  • Second Symphony for Orchestra (1946/49)
  • I. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1948)
  • II. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1950)
  • III. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1968)
  • IV. Concerto for piano and orchestra (1972)
  • Suite for string orchestra (1950)
  • Symphonic epilogue for large orchestra (1952)
  • Symphonic travel ballad for large orchestra (1958)
  • Rhythmophony 1966/67 for orchestra (1967)
  • Symphonic Rondo for Orchestra (1970)
  • Stations 1974/75 (1975)
  • Suite for orchestra (unfinished) (1976)
  • Arena - 20th century for orchestra (1979/80)

Ballet music

  • Bear Adventure - Ballet Suite 1962
  • Ballad um Pandora - ballet music for orchestra
  • Moor myth - ballet music for orchestra

Chamber music

  • I. String Quartet 1936
  • II. String quartet 1942
  • III. String quartet 1957 / new version 1970
  • IV. String Quartet 1961
  • Quartet for 2 violins, viola, violoncello, clarinet B-flat 1981
  • Trio 1950 for clarinet in Bb (violin), violoncello, piano
  • Trio 1960 for violin, viola and violoncello
  • Suite for violin and piano 1942
  • Suite for clarinet in Bb and piano 1944
  • I. Suite for Trumpet and Piano 1945
  • II. Suite for Trumpet and Piano 1952
  • Suite for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and harpsichord 1959
  • Sudeten Suite 1964 for violin, violoncello and piano
  • Suite for wind instruments 1972
  • Rhapsody for trombone and piano 1951
  • Suite for viola and piano 1948/49
  • Sonata for violin and piano 1936
  • Sonata for violoncello and piano 1951
  • Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn 1957
  • Quintet for trumpet, horn, trombone, timpani and piano 1951
Ammersee from the north near Föhn, Hans Winterberg 1956, private ownership

Piano music

  • Piano Sonata I 1936
  • Piano Sonata II 1941
  • Piano Sonata III 1947
  • Piano Sonata IV 1948
  • Piano Sonata V 1950
  • Suite for piano 1928
  • Suite for piano "Theresienstadt 1945"
  • Suite for piano 1950
  • Suite for piano 1955
  • Suite for piano 1956
  • Suite for piano 1958
  • Memories of Bohemia - Suite for piano
  • Impressionist piano suite
  • 7 twelve-tone neo-impressionist pieces for piano
  • Four Intermezzi for piano 1929
  • Toccata for piano 1926
  • 12 children's pieces for piano for two and four hands 1932
  • Bear Adventure - Burlesque for piano 1962
  • Three piano pieces 1984/85

Vocal works

  • Julian the hospitable after Gustave Flaubert
  • There and here - 4 songs after Franz Werfel for soprano and piano
  • Seven songs based on poems by Franz Werfel for soprano and piano
  • Two songs based on his own texts for soprano and piano
  • Four songs based on poems by Luise.M.Pfeifer-Winterberg for soprano and piano
  • Four songs based on poems by Roderich Menzel for baritone and piano
  • Little girl dreams - 7 women's choirs a cappella based on Emanuel Lesehrad (translated into German by Hans Winterberg)
  • Reminiscences - songs for voice and orchestra based on their own texts 1932
  • Moon song of a girl - after Franz Werfel for singing a. Orchestra 1933

Radio play music

Upscale light music

under the pseudonym Jan Iweer

  • Nymphenburg fountains for orchestra
  • Russian rhapsody for orchestra
  • Arietta 1963 for piano and voice
  • Trepak for piano
  • Remembering Prague for baritone and orchestra Text: LMPfeifer-Winterberg

Textbook

  • Music theory (unpublished)

Radio broadcasts from Bavarian Radio 1950–1981

  • 20th century arena for symphony orchestra

Graunke Symphony Orchestra (1981), conductor: Kurt Graunke

  • Ballad about Pandora. A choreographic vision

Munich Philharmonic (1959), conductor: Rudolf Alberth

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra

Agi Brand-Setterl (piano), Munich Philharmonic (1950), conductor: Fritz Rieger

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2

Liesel Heidersdorf (piano), Munich Philharmonic (1952), conductor: Fritz Rieger

  • Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3

Gitti Pirner (piano), Munich Philharmonic (1970), conductor: Jan Koetsier

  • Symphony No. 1

Popular title: Sinfonia drammatica, Münchner Philharmoniker (1955), conductor: Karl List

  • Symphony No. 2 for large orchestra

Munich Philharmonic (1952), conductor: Jan Koetsier

  • Stations 1974/1975

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1975), conductor: Rainer Miedel

  • String quartet 1942

Koeckert Quartet (1951), Rudolf Koeckert (violin), Willi Buchner (violin), Oskar Riedl (viola), Josef Merz (violoncello)

  • String Quartet 1957 (new version 1970)

Sonnleitner Quartet (1971), Fritz Sonnleitner (violin), Ludwig Baier (violin), Siegfried Meinecke (viola), Fritz Kiskalt (violoncello)

  • Sudeten Suite for violin, violoncello and piano (1966)

Gerhard Seitz (violin), Walter Nothas (violoncello), Günter Louegk (piano)

  • Symphonic travel ballad

Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1963), conductor: Joseph Strobl

  • Symphonic epilogue

Munich Philharmonic (1956), conductor: Fritz Rieger

  • Trio for violin, viola and violoncello

String Trio (1962), Angelika Rümann (violin), Franz Schessl (viola), Wilhelm Schneller (cello)

  • 4 songs for soprano and piano (1973)

Text writer: Luise Pfeifer-Winterberg, I went tonight, The rain mumbles softly, Every hour without you, How the storm raged, Edith Urbanczyk (soprano), Hortense Wieser (piano)

  • The rain mumbles softly for soprano and piano (1981)

Lyricists: Luise Pfeifer-Winterberg, Irmgard Lampart (soprano), Ernst Mauss (piano)

  • Radio play: Robinson shouldn't die (1961)
  • Radio play: Mrs. Violett's dreams (1960)

Awards

Web links

source

  • The Sudeten Germans, Fritz Peter Habel, Volume 1 - p. 271, extended new edition 2002
  • Musikarchiv der Künstlergilde eV Bonn (copy SMI), 29f., Heinrich Simbriger , letter to Sir Cecil Parott of January 5th, 1975, concerns: German composers in Prague
  • Catalog of works by contemporary composers from Eastern Germany, Heinrich Simbriger 1955 and supplementary volumes
  • Klaus Peter Koch. Winterberg, Hans. Sudeten German Music Institute (ed.). Lexicon on German music culture. Bohemia - Moravia - Sudeten Silesia. Munich 2000. Sp. 2981-2983.
  • Sudetendeutsche Zeitung of June 14, 1991
  • Sudeten German cultural almanac, edited by Josef Heinrich, Delp'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich, Heinrich Simbriger: The composer Hans Winterberg - Recognition prize for music (composition) 1963
  • Historical archive of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
  • 60 years Munich Philharmonic - administration of the Munich Philharmonic 1953
  • 75 years of the Munich Philharmonic - Alfons Ott 1968
  • 100 years of the Munich Philharmonic - Gabriele E. Meyer 1994
  • Bayerischer Rundfunk - II. Program, Wednesday, March 31, 1965, 10:05 p.m. - composer portrait of Hans Winterberg by Alfons Ott, library director of the Munich city library
  • Hans Winterberg Archive in the exil.arte center of the mdw

literature

  • Taken with me - home in things, by Prof. Dr. Andreas Otto Weber (Ed.), Volk Verlag, Munich 2015
  • musica reanimata-Mitteilungen No. 81 October 2013 - Peter Kreitmeir: My grandfather, the composer Hans Winterberg
  • Biographia Judaica Bohemiae - Rudolf M. Wlaschek 1995
  • Jews in Bohemia - Rudolf M. Wlaschek 1990, Collegium Carolinum Volume 66
  • Jews between Germans and Czechs - Marek Nekula and Walter Kosiminal 2006, Collegium Carolinum Volume 104
  • Jews in the Sudetenland - Ackermann-Gemeinde 2000, p. 236 Rabbi Löwy Winterberg
  • Robert Weltsch on his seventieth birthday - Hans Tramer 1961
  • Jewish Prague - Jewish Publishing House 1978, Kronberg / Ts.
  • The history of the Jews in Bohemia - Abraham Stein, Brno 1904
  • Theater of Identity: The Brno German Theater of the Interwar Period - Katharina Wessely 2011
  • Music - Lost & Found, Gerold Gruber, Michael Haas p. 31 The Dilemma Winterberg - Verlag Der Apfel, edition: 1 (October 25, 2017)
  • Theresienstadt - Europa-Verlag Vienna 1968

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Winterberg to the Eßlingen Artists' Guild of March 21, 1956
  2. ↑ Class register of Prof. Alois Hába 1937–1940, State Conservatory for Music in Prague.
  3. ^ Database of Holocaust Victims in the Jewish Museum in Prague
  4. ↑ German Stage Yearbook 1929, p. 331
  5. ^ Deportation card in the Jewish community in Prague
  6. ↑ Czech National Archives, Prague
  7. ↑ Thomas Stolle, Hans Winterberg, 1991
  8. ^ Letter dated December 8, 1963 to Alois Melichar, composer - Alois Melichar's estate in the Monacensia - Munich City Library
  9. ↑ musica reanimata-Mitteilungen No. 81 , October 2013 - Dr. Albrecht Dümling, p. 12.
  10. ↑ Own "short biography" in the archive of the exil.arte center of the mdw
  11. ↑ Schwäbische Landeszeitung Augsburg, August 29, 1955.
  12. ↑ Schwäbische Landeszeitung Augsburg , March 26, 1955.
  13. ↑ Gabriele E. Meyer, City of Munich (Ed.): 100 Years of the Munich Philharmonic , Knürr, 1994.
  14. ^ Alfons Ott: Die Münchner Philharmoniker , Peter Winkler Verlag, 1968, p. 43.
  15. ↑ Ulrich Trebbin: Bizarrer estate dispute - research prohibited ( Memento from August 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , br.de, July 10, 2015, accessed on July 11, 2015.
  16. ^ Fertile legacy, 20 years of the Sudeten German Culture Prize , Viktor Aschenbrenner 1974 - Sudetenland publishing house - Munich
personal data
SURNAME Winterberg, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1991
Place of death Bad Tölz