Category: posts-en

A concert evening dedicated to the chamber music works of the composer Hans Winterberg (1901-1991). Under the title “Echo of the Unheard”, a selection of his works will be interpreted by students of the mdw.

Born in Prague, Winterberg’s artistic career was severely impaired by persecution, deportation and exile. As a Jewish composer, he survived Theresienstadt and emigrated to Germany in 1947, where he had to re-establish himself as a musician under difficult circumstances. It was only decades after his death that a rediscovery of his work began – initiated by his grandson Peter Kreitmeir and supported by the Exilarte Center of the mdw in collaboration with the music publisher Boosey & Hawkes.

Musicologist Katja Kaiser, researcher and music edition consultant at the Exilarte Center, curates the program and leads through the evening.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 7:00 p.m

Palais Ehrbar – Kleiner Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / Registration here.

Contributors:

Students of the mdw

Program:

Chamber music works by Hans Winterberg from the archive of the mdw’s Exilarte Center

As part of this recital, students from the renowned Guildhall School of Music, under the direction of pianist Marc Verter, will present the song oeuvre of the exiled composer Édouard Van Cleeff.

The concert is part of a cooperative project between the Guildhall School and the mdw’s Exilarte Center with the aim of creating the first scholarly edition of his songs and making his music accessible to a new audience in both London and Vienna.

Although Van Cleeff celebrated successes in the 1930s – including the premiere and radio broadcast of his opera “Pancho” in Nice – little is known about his life today. He was expelled from Nice in 1943 and deported to French and later German camps. Thanks to the initiative of the American pianist Joy Schreier and the support of Renée Fleming, Van Cleeff’s musical legacy finally reached the Exilarte Center.

Thursday, November 13th, 2025 at 7:00 p.m

Palais Ehrbar – Kleiner Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / Registration here.

Contributors:

Marc Verter and students of the Guildhall School of Music

Program:

Musical works by Édouard Rosario Van Cleef from the archive of the mdw’s Exilarte Center

Moderation:

Gerold Gruber
Founder of exil.arte and director of the Exilarte Center

On this concert evening, the mdw’s Exilarte Center dedicates itself to the impressive string sextet by the Austrian composer Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944).

Gerold Gruber will lead through the program and place the work in its musical and historical context.

Tyberg, originally from Vienna, later lived and worked as an organist and conductor in Abbazia (now Opatija, Croatia). Despite growing repression under National Socialism, he continued to compose and gave his musical manuscripts to a friend – shortly before he was deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there. His music, long lost, is now experiencing a belated rediscovery. Alongside symphonies and sacred music, the string sextet, now performed in its entirety for the first time in Vienna, is one of his central chamber music works.

Thursday, December 18th, 2025 at 7:00 p.m

Palais Ehrbar – Kleiner Ehrbar Saal
Mühlgasse 28
1040 Vienna

Admission free! / Registration here.

Contributors:

Students of the mdw

Program:

Marcel Tyberg: String Sextet in F minor

Moderation:

Gerold Gruber
Founder of exil.arte and head of the Exilarte Center