Hanns Jelinek

Hanns Jelinek ( born December 5, 1901 in Vienna, † 27 January 1969 ibid.; pseudonym Hanns Elin ) was an Austrian composer and music teacher.

Life

After his participation in the seminar for composition with emphasis on counterpoint and harmony, he took the beginning of the 20s of the 20th century to study at the Academy of Music in Vienna. His teachers were, inter alia, Arnold Schoenberg and Alban Berg. However, he did not finish this study.

In order to earn his living as a freelance composer, he joined henceforth as a pianist in bars and cinemas and composed under his pseudonym " Hanns Elin 'light music and pop. It was only in 1958, he accepted a position as a teacher at the Academy of Music in Vienna. In 1965 he was appointed professor at the local university. He died in Vienna in 1969 and was in an honorary dedicated grave in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 40, Number 22) interred.

His compositional work consists mainly of operettas, symphonies, songs, suites, canons and songs as well as film music. In the implementation of the twelve-tone technique in his compositions the influence of his teacher Schoenberg can be seen. Jelinek wrote Moreover, as part of his teaching at the Vienna Academy of Music several music-theoretical writings, primarily on the subject of the twelve-tone technique.

Awards

Works (selection)

• Compositions Concertino for Strings, Op 17
• Suite for String Orchestra, Op 11
• Sinfonia Brevis, Op 16
• Bubi Caligula operetta
• Imagination "for clarinet, piano and orchestra, Op 18
• 13 little songs for voice and piano, Op 1
• Prelude and Fugue for Chamber Orchestra, Op 4
• Twelve-tone
• Part of the soundtrack for " Spring on the ice " with the Vienna Ice Revue ( the other part composed Nico Dostal )

• Instructions for twelve-tone
• Zwölftonbibel for Piano