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Grete Hinterhofer (* 18 July 1899 in Wels; † 27 June 1985 in Vienna) was an Austrian pianist, music teacher and composer.

Life

Her father was the middle school teacher Hinterhofer, her mother Karoline Hinterhofer (1864-1951) was a piano teacher and composer. At the age of nine, Grete Hinterhofer received her first private piano lessons from Cäcilie (von) Frank (1851-1936?), who ran an illustrious musical salon in the 1st district and was piano accompanist to the Hellmesberger Quartet and Arnold Rosé. She received extensive artistic training from her and gave a number of public performances, which were reviewed in local newspapers. Cäcilie (von) Frank’s flat was also an important meeting place for the Viennese musical world. One of Grete Hinterhofer’s fellow students was the Schönberg pupil Vilma von Webenau.

She also took piano lessons at the Vienna Academy of Music with Hugo Reinhold as early as 1909/10 and with Emil von Sauer in 1914. In 1917, she passed the state examination for piano and then worked as a concert pianist. She later studied organ with Franz Schütz and music theory with Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Academy of Music from 1924 to 1927. She taught there herself from 1927, from 1932 as a professor – until her retirement in 1969. Her students included the composers Andre Asriel, Erich Urbanner, Rolf 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, among others. She devoted herself to performing works by contemporary composers such as Karl Schiske, whose Rhapsody for Piano she played in the Brahms Hall of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music in 1950.
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