Hans Winterberg (1901–1991) composed his two trumpet suites at decisive turning points in his life– the first in December 1945 in Prague, a few months after his liberation from the Theresienstadt ghetto, the second in 1952 at the beginning of a promising new beginning as a composer in West Germany, where he had emigrated to in 1947.

The first documented performance of the 1st Suite at the Amerika-Haus in Munich in 1950 was very successful according to the critics and may have prompted the per...