Piano Accompaniment;
Violin (Violin/Piano)
SKU: HL.48025445
For Violin and
Piano. Composed by
Hans Winterberg. Boosey
and Hawkes Chamber Music.
Classical. Softcover.
Duration 420 seconds.
Boosey and Hawkes
#M202538852. Published by
Boosey and Hawkes
(HL.48025445).
ISBN
9783793145820. UPC:
196288216438.
Hans
Winterberg's
extraordinary life was
written in two chapters,
one Czech and one German,
split right down the
middle by the experience
of the Shoah, which
Winterberg, unlike his
colleagues Ullmann,
Krása, Haas and Klein,
miraculously survived. In
1947, the Prague-born
composer moved to Munich,
where he worked for the
Bavarian Broadcasting
Corporation. As a student
of Alexander Zemlinsky
and Alois Hába, he
belongs both to the Czech
tradition following
Janácek and to the
circle of the Second
Viennese School. He saw
himself as a bridge
builder between Western
and Eastern culture. The
circumstances under which
Winterberg was able to
compose during the war
years are still unclear.
Although his “mixed
marriage” initially
saved him from
deportation, he had to
perform forced labour and
was eventually sent to
the Terezin ghetto in
January 1945. The Suite
for Violin and Piano was
composed in 1942, the
year in which both
Winterberg's mother and
his piano professor
Thérèse Wallerstein
were murdered by the
Nazis. Compared to the
violin sonata from 1936,
the Suite is much more
condensed, lasting less
than seven minutes. A
melody dominated by
chromatic turns and
expressionist harmony
lend the work its
melancholy character,
which gives way, however,
to an almost
irrepressible defiance in
the rhythmically
percussive last
movement.