Hans Winterberg

• Hans (Hanuš) Winterberg studied in his native Prague with Fidelio F. Finke, Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Hába
• Worked as a répétiteur
• Was deported to Terezín in 1945
• Emigrated to southern Germany in 1947 and worked for Bavarian Radio and the Richard Strauss Conservatory
• Composed orchestral works, ballets, vocal and chamber music
• His highly personal style fuses the polyrhythms of the Bohemian-Moravian tradition with contemporary trends such as dodecaphony, polytonality and impressionism
• Many of his compositions have a surreal, eerie subject and mood
• His compositional output was played and recorded on radio during his lifetime, but never published
• Under lock and key for several years after Winterberg’s death, it is now being made accessible and published for the first time by Boosey & Hawkes in cooperation with the Exilarte Center at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the composer’s grandson

Hans Winterberg’s works include:
Sinfonia drammatica (Symphony No.1) (1934)
Piano Concerto No.1 (1948)
String Quartet No.1 ('Symfonie für Streichquartett', 1936)
Sonata for cello and piano (1951)
Suite Theresienstadt (1944) for piano

“I have finally found for myself, even if only in my more advanced years, a personal style that represents something new, akin to a free variation of serialism.” — Hans Winterberg

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