Doctoral Colloquium (Music) | Gerold Gruber
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Doctoral Colloquium: Gerold Gruber, musicology, Exilarte Center, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (see bio below)
Title: The estates in the archive of the Exilarte Center in Vienna
Abstract: Since the Exilarte Research Center was founded in 2016, more than 30 estates have already been included in the Center's archive. Gerold Gruber gives an overview of the current holdings and focuses his presentation on the following 3 estates: Julius Burger, Hans Winterberg and Jan Urban.
The estate of Julius Burger is one of the first estates received by the Research Center. Burger was a pupil of Franz Schreker in Vienna and, like Schreker, went to Berlin and began a career as a conductor. He developed radio programs with arrangements and original compositions for the Funkstunde in Berlin and for the BBC. In August 2023, orchestral works by Julius Burger were performed for the first time in Vienna in a concert by the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra in cooperation with Exilarte.
Hans Winterberg was born in Prague and was a student of Alexander Zemlinsky and Alois Haba. Due to his Jewish origins, he was deported to Theresienstadt in January 1945, the last year of the war. His fellow composers Ullman, Klein, Haas and Krása had already been deported to Auschwitz in October 1944 and murdered. After the Second World War, he went into exile in Germany and worked as a composer and editor at Bayerischer Rundfunk. His estate was blocked until 2030. Exilarte arranged for it to be opened. An edition of Hans Winterberg's works is being produced in cooperation with the publishing house Boosey & Hawkes.
Jan Urban was also born in Prague and took up a position as a composer and conductor before the First World War at the invitation of the Serbian king. After the end of the First World War, Urban held the position of conductor and director of the Osijek Opera Theater, where he took over the artistic direction together with Lav Mirski. Due to his anti-fascist political views, he was in danger of being arrested, deported or even murdered by the Ustasha militia, which collaborated with the National Socialists. He escaped this fate by fleeing back to Serbia and only resumed his post in Osijek after the end of the Second World War.
