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Hans Winterberg's Streichtrio from 1960 is one of the composer's most substantial chamber music works. On the one hand, he achieves a fascinating symbiosis of the most important tendencies of German-Austrian and Czech modernism in the first half of the 20th century; on the other, he takes a decisive step towards a tonal language in which the focus is no longer on harmonic-melodic complexity, but on the sensation of different tempo experiences occurring simultaneously. This path, which originated with Janáček, finally culminated in the works of the late 1960s, above all in Rhythmophonie for symphony orchestra, in which this compositional principle became the title. Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901 to a Jewish family that had lived in Prague for centuries, studied there with Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Hába, among others. He survived the Shoah thanks to lucky coincidence and emigrated to Munich after the war, where he enjoyed a successful second career as a composer in the 1950s and 60s. The String Trio was recorded in 1962 by the members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Angelika Rümann, Franz Schessl and Wilhelm Schneller in the Bavarian Radio studio. The Münchner Streichtrio played the world premiere coram publico in Esslingen in 1964.
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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.
