Werner Reinhart - Other Associates

Other Associates

• Although he was anti-Semitic, Reinhart was on good terms with Arnold Schoenberg. Schoenberg wrote to Reinhart in 1923: "For the present, it matters more to me if people understand my older works ... I do not attach so much importance to being a musical bogey-man as to being a natural continuer of properly understood good old tradition!"

• In January 1933, Hans Pfitzner was so bereft of funds that he offered to sell three museum artifacts to Reinhart for the sum of RM1,500. On this occasion, Reinhart did not respond.

• After World War II, Wilhelm Furtwängler and his wife Elisabeth escaped to Switzerland with the assistance of Ernest Ansermet and were supported financially by Werner Reinhart.

• In 1920 Albert Moeschinger received a stipend from Reinhart for three years study abroad.

• It was at Werner Reinhart’s personal invitation that Petr Rybar became concertmaster for the Winterthur Orchestra, where he remained for 28 years.

• He also knew or corresponded with: Volkmar Andreae, Ernest Ansermet, René Victor Auberjonois, Conrad Beck, Alban Berg, Alfredo Casella, Alexandre Cingria, Gustave Doret, Karl Ferdinand Edmund von Freyhold, Alois Hába, Clara Haskil, Hermann Hesse, Karl Hofer, Heinrich Kaminski, Rudolf Kassner, Carl Montag, Paul Müller-Zürich, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Albert Schweitzer, Richard Strauss, Regina Ullmann, and Felix Weingartner.

• The Winterthur Libraries hold musical and literary manuscripts by Beck, Berg, Debussy, de Falla, Franck, Haydn, Hindemith, Honegger, Kaminski, Krenek, Liszt, Frank Martin, Milhaud, Myaskovsky, Moeschinger, Mozart, Müller-Zürich, Ramuz (Histoire du soldat), Reger, Schoeck, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Weber, Webern and Hugo Wolf.