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Sudeten-Suite
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In the context of the non-tonal, rhythmically complex tonal language of Hans Winterberg's works of the 1960s, the Sudeten-Suite with its turn to tonality has its own special place. The three movements are dedicated to scenic „events“ in Winterberg's Bohemian homeland, demarcation points of Czechoslovak territory on the border to Poland in the north (Schneekoppe, Elbquellen) and to Österreich and Germany, the so-called border-triangle, in the south (Plöckenstein). It is program music in the best sense in the tradition of Smetana's Má Vlast, a composed remembrance of magnificent landscapes that became unattainable for Winterberg after his escape from communist Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain in 1947.
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Sudeten-Suite: - I Rund um die Schneekoppe
II Rund um den Plöckenstein
III Elbe-Quellen
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Turning Points - Episode 2: Hans Winterberg
Turning Points - Episode 2: Hans Winterberg
Turning Points - Episode 2: Hans Winterberg
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Hans Winterberg, born in 1901 into a Jewish family that had lived in Prague for centuries, studied with Alexander von Zemlinsky and Alois Hába. Until the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany in 1939, he worked as a conductor, pianist, and composer. Unlike his friends and colleagues Viktor Ullmann, Hans Krása, and Gideon Klein, he survived the Shoah through a series of miracles. In 1945, he moved to Munich, where he began a promising second career. As a representative of a moderate avant-garde, he found himself increasingly marginalized from the late 1960s onwards. After his death in 1991, his artistic estate was locked away in a German music archive and, since none of his works had been published during his lifetime, he was forgotten. Since 2023, Boosey & Hawkes has been publishing Winterberg's chamber music in an extraordinary edition project as first editions in cooperation with the Exilarte Research Center at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. They reveal music of unique charm, in which influences from Janáček, the Second Viennese School, and French Impressionism are amalgamated into an original and exciting personal style.
Following the chamber music, the edition project will focus on the first editions of Winterberg's piano works and songs.
