Hanns Jelinek

Hanns Jelinek studied at University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Anne-Marie Ørbeck, Yannis Ioannidis and Conrad Baden are recorded as having studied under Hanns Jelinek. The recorded working language is German. Employment is recorded with University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Distinctions recorded are City of Vienna Prize for Music.

• Name — Hanns Jelinek • Birth Name — Johannes Jelinek • Born — 5 December 1901 • Birthplace — Vienna, Austria • Died — 27 January 1969 • Place of death — Vienna • Known for — Composing music • Occupation — Composer

Jelinek was born and died in Vienna. His father was a machine operator (died 1917). At the age of 6 he began violin lessons and at age 7, began learning the piano. In 1918 he became a member of the newly founded Communist Party of Austria. In 1918–19 Jelinek studied with Arnold Schoenberg at Eugenie Schwarzwald's School in Vienna, and privately with Alban Berg. These two influenced him to write many works in the twelve-tone technique. In 1920 he started the study with Franz Schmidt at the Vienna Academy of Music. However, in 1922 he broke off his studies for financial reasons, and thereafter studied music on his own. In order to support himself as a self-employed composer in Vienna, he appeared as a pianist in bars and cinemas and composed popular music under the pseudonym Hanns Elin. From 1958 on, he was a lecturer and, after 1965, a professor at the Vienna Academy of Music. In 1966, he was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize.

• Compositions • 13 kleine Lieder (13 Little Songs) for voice and Piano op. 1 (1927) • Präludium, Passacaglia und Fuge for chamber orchestra op. 4 (1922) • 3 Chansons after the texts by Erich Kästner (1930) • 1st String Quartet op. 10 (1931) • Suite for string orchestra op. 11 (1931) • Sinfonia concertante (Symphony No. 4) for string quartet and big orchestra op. 12 (1931) • 2nd String Quartet op. 13 (1934–35) • Bubi Caligula operetta (1947–53) • Zwölftonwerk op. 15 (1947–52) • Sinfonia brevis op. 16 (1948–50) • Concertino for strings op. 17 (1951) • Phantasie for clarinet, piano and orchestra op. 18 (1951) • Zwölftonfibel (Twelve-Tone Alphabet Book) for piano op. 21 (1953–54) • Sinfonia concertante (Symphony No. 6) op. 22 (1953) • Selbstbildnis des Marc Aurel (Self-Portrait of Marcus Aurelius) for speaker and four instrumental soloists op. 24 (1954) • Sonata for violin op. 27 (1956) • Unterwegs (On The Way): Cantata on the lyrics by Franz Kiessling for soprano, vibraphone and double bass. op. 28 (1957) • Four Songs on the lyrics by Franz Kiessling for middle voice and piano op. 29 (1957) • The Dances Around the Steel Blue Rose ballet (1956–59) • Canon nuptiale for mixed choir (1959) • Zehn zahme Xenien (Ten Tame Xenias) for violine and piano op. 32 (1960) • Rai Buba étude for piano and big orchestra op. 34 (1962) • Writings • Musikalisches Hexeneinmaleins, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 6. Jg., 1951 • Anleitung zur Zwölftonkomposition nebst allerlei Paralipomena (2 volumes), Vienna, 1952 • Die krebsgleichen Allintervallreihen, in Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 18. Jg., 1961 • Musik in Film und Fernsehen, in: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, 23. Jg., 1968