Grete Hinterhofer (18 July 1899 – 27 June 1985) was an Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer.

Life

Hinterhofer was born in

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. 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

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and

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. 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

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's student

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. She also took piano lessons as soon as 1909/10 at the

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with

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. 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

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and

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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,

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and Wolfgang Gabriel, the organist Bernhard Billeter and the pianist Harald Ossberger. Hinterhofer performed as a concert pianist under the direction of

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and others. She dedicated herself to the performance of works by contemporary composers such as

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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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hinterhofer, Grete Austrian classical pianists Austrian music educators Austrian women classical pianists Austrian women music educators Austrian women composers Recipients of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1899 births 1985 deaths People from Upper Austria People from Wels