Cello; Piano
Accompaniment (Cello Part
And Piano Score)
SKU:
HL.48025366
Cello
and Piano. Composed
by Hans Winterberg.
Boosey & Hawkes Chamber
Music. Classical.
Softcover. Bote & Bock
#M202538104. Published by
Bote & Bock
(HL.48025366).
UPC:
196288194279.
Hans
Winterberg, born in
Prague in 1901, lived
through almost the entire
period of the 20th
century and was
influenced as a composer
by its most important
artistic innovations.
Already a brilliant
pianist as an adolescent,
he studied with Alois
Hába and Alexander von
Zemlinsky in Prague. Both
his life and his music
reflect the
Austrian-Czech-Jewish
cultural symbiosis; he
saw himself as a bridge
builder between Western
and Eastern, i.e. Slavic,
cultures. Owing to his
Jewish ancestry, he was
deported to the Terezin
concentration camp after
the annexation of
Czechoslovakia by Nazi
Germany. He was the only
Jewish representative of
the Czech musical
avant-garde of the 1920s
and 1930s to survive the
Shoah and, in 1947,
followed his non-Jewish
wife and their daughter
to the FRG in the course
of the expulsion of the
German-speaking
population from
Czechoslovakia.
Winterberg's fascinating
oeuvre, which was kept
under lock and key in a
German music archive for
years after his death, is
now being made accessible
in first editions due to
a cooperation between the
Exilarte Center for
Banned Music at the
University of Music in
Vienna and Boosey &
Hawkes. The first printed
edition is Winterberg's
Cello Sonata, composed in
1951, in which all the
characteristics of his
unmistakable personal
style come to the fore:
dance-like energy,
polyrhythm, intimate yet
unsentimental melos,
subtle handling of
folkloristic material,
and an unerring sense of
form and balance. This
work is of medium
technical and great
interpretative
difficulty.
