Hans Heimler
born Vienna, September 25, 1913; died Surrey (UK), August 1898
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Austrian, later British, composer and writer about music, pupil of Berg and Weingartner, contributor to Schenkerian periodical Der Dreiklang .
Hans Heimler studied musicology at the University of Vienna, where he graduated in 1938 with a dissertation "The Contribution of the French Chanson to the Development of Instrumental Music," and also composition with Alban Berg and conducting with Felix Weingartner. Banned from practising his profession because Jewish, he emigrated to the UK, working with Scottish Opera and teaching composition at the University of Surrey, Guildford.
Heimler and the Schenker circle
Heimler contributed an article to issue 3 (June 1937) of Der Dreiklang , "A Protagonist for the Preservation of Mozart's Manuscripts" [Ein Vorkämpfer für die Erhaltung der Handschriften Mozarts]. An eight-page mimeographed article by him "The Essence of the Teaching of Heinrich Schenker", dating from c. 1937, together with a four-page abridgment, is preserved as OJ 58/13.
Two letters from Heimler to Oswald Jonas survive from 1965 (OJ 36/145).
Sources:
- Oswald Jonas Memorial Collection Checklist of Manuscripts, pp. 112, 163
- James Francis Brown, Universität Wien Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna in 1938 (online): "Hans Heimler": http://gedenkbuch.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=435&no_cache=1&L=2&person_single_id=26513&person_name=&person_geburtstag_tag=not_selected&person_geburtstag_monat=not_selected&person_geburtstag_jahr=not_selected&person_fakultaet=not_selected&person_kategorie=not_selected&person_volltextsuche=&search_person.x=1&result_page=50
Contributors
- Ian Bent and William Drabkin