Hans Ewald Heller


Hans Ewald Heller was an Austrian-American composer, music critic and teacher.

Life

Heller studied with Camilla Horn and J. B. Foerster and received a doctorates from the University of Prague and the University of Vienna. He lived in Vienna where he worked as a music teacher and critic, editing several journals and magazines. He was an orchestrator for the Vienna Broadcasting System and taught classes on music for film. He was described in The New York Times as being the cousin of Albert Einstein.
In 1938, he moved to the United States and died in 1966.

Selected compositions

Light operas

Satan Messalina

Overtures

  • ''Carnival in New Orleans''

Cantatas

  • ''Ode to Our Women''