In addition to the Piano Concerto No. 1 and the Suite for Viola and Piano, this unusually scored Concertino is one of the earliest works that Winterberg composed after moving from Prague to Munich in 1947. In that year, Fritz Rieger, his old fellow student in Zemlinsky's conducting class, had premiered Winterberg's First Symphony, written in Prague in 1934/35, in Mannheim – it was the most important performance of one of the composer's works to date, and Winterberg could not only hope a ...