The period around the mid-1930s was a particularly fruitful and eventful time in Hans Winterberg's life. He wrote his first important orchestral compositions and chamber music works as well as his first piano sonata. Winterberg, born in Prague in 1901, a child prodigy as a pianist and a cautious composer, finally ventured into the great forms and genres of tradition, but also experimented with unusual combinations of instruments, as in his first chamber music work, the Quintet for Violin, 2 Clar...