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In Hans Winterberg's turbulent first half of his life, there were two periods of calm, phases in which he must have had the feeling of having "arrived", of making his way and enjoying the recognition that his extraordinary talent deserved. In the mid-1930s, when he had started a family in Prague and created his first masterpieces as a freelance composer. Then again around 1950, when, as a Holocaust survivor, he gained a foothold in Munich after fleeing Czechoslovakia and was able to celebrate his first significant successes with performances by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra and the city's top musicians. Hardly any other work by Winterberg radiates such self-assurance and confidence as the Trio for clarinet (or violin), cello and piano, composed in 1950, the year of the first successful performance of his 1st Piano Concerto by the Munich Philharmonic. With its four movements and a playing time of over 15 minutes, it is one of his more extensive chamber music works, bringing together all the characteristics of his oeuvre in a successful symbiosis: Impressionist sensuality of sound, neoclassical charm and folkloristic high spirits – Winterberg's Trio 1950, published for the first time in its two versions now, is a substantial enrichment of the 20th century trio repertoire.
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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.
