Grete Hinterhofer (18 July 1899 – 27 June 1985) was an Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer.
Life
Hinterhofer was born in
Wels
Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria.
Geography
Wels is in the ...
. Her father was a teacher, her mother a piano teacher and composer.
At the age of nine Hinterhofer received her first private piano lessons from Cäcilie (von) Frank (1851-1936?), who ran an illustrious musical salon in the 1st district of Vienna and was piano accompanist to the
Hellmesberger Quartet
The Hellmesberger Quartet was a string quartet formed in Vienna in 1849. It was founded by Joseph Hellmesberger Sr. and was the first permanent named String Quartet.
Composition
Violinist Leopold Jansa had started a string quartet in 1845. Hellm ...
and
Arnold Rosé
Arnold Josef Rosé (born ''Rosenblum''; 24 October 1863 – 25 August 1946) was a Romanian-born Austrian Jewish violinist. He was leader of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for over half a century. He worked closely with Brahms. Gustav Mahler was ...
. She received extensive artistic training from her and made several public appearances that were reviewed in local newspapers. Cäcilie (von) Frank's apartment was also an important meeting place for the Viennese musical world. One of Hinterhofer's schoolmates was
Arnold Schönberg
Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...
's student
Vilma von Webenau.
She also took piano lessons as soon as 1909/10 at the
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien with
Hugo Reinhold
Hugo Reinhold (3 March 18544 September 1935) was an Austrian composer and pianist.
He was born and died in Vienna. He was admitted to the Conservatorium der Musikfreunde, where he studied under Anton Bruckner, Felix Dessoff and Julius Epst ...
[https://www.musiklexikon.ac.at/ml/musik_H/Hinterhofer_Grete.xml, Hinterhofer_Grete, Hinterhofer, Grete, Barbara Boisits, Stand: 6 May 2001] and 1914 with
Emil von Sauer.
In 1917 she passed the state examination for piano and afterwards worked as a concert pianist.
Later she studied organ at the Vienna Music Academy from 1924 to 1927 with
Franz Schütz and
music theory with
Franz Schmidt.
From 1927 she taught there herself, from 1932 as professor - until her retirement in 1969.
Among her students were the composers
Andre Asriel,
Erich Urbanner
Erich Urbanner (born 26 March 1936) is an Austrian composer and teacher.
Biography
Born in Innsbruck, Urbanner studied from 1955 to 1961 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, in the composition classes of Karl Schiske and Han ...
,
Rolf Alexander Wilhelm and
Wolfgang Gabriel, the organist
Bernhard Billeter and the pianist
Harald Ossberger. Hinterhofer performed as a concert pianist under the direction of
Richard Strauss and others. She dedicated herself to the performance of works by contemporary composers such as
Karl Schiske whose ''Rhapsody'' for piano she played in 1950 in the Brahms Hall of the .
Hinterhofer died in Vienna at age 85.
Literatur
* Eva Marx, Gerlinde Haas: ''210 österreichische Komponistinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart: Biographie, Werk und Bibliographie: ein Lexikon''. Residenz, Salzburg 2001, . .
* Susanne Wosnitzka: ''"Gemeinsame Not verstärkt den Willen" – Netzwerke von Musikerinnen in Wien'', in Annkatrin Babbe und Volker Timmermann (ed.): ''Musikerinnen und ihre Netzwerke im 19. Jahrhundert''.
''Musikerinnen und ihre Netzwerke im 19. Jahrhundert''
on Worldcat Oldenburg 2016 (Schriftenreihe des Sophie Drinker Instituts (ed. Freia Hoffmann), vol. 12). .
References
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Austrian classical pianists
Austrian music educators
Austrian women composers
Austrian women pianists
Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
1899 births
1985 deaths
People from Upper Austria