Hans Brehme

• b. 10.3.1904, d. 10.11.1957
• first instrument: piano
• student of piano and composition at "Hochschule für Musik" in Berlin from 1922 to 1928, from 1926 with Wilhelm Kempff
• piano teacher at "Hochschule für Musik" in Stuttgart from 1928
• teacher of composition from 1936
• appointed professor in Stuttgart in 1940
• professor at "Hochschulinstitut für Musikerziehung" in Trossingen from 1945 to 1949
• well known pianist and accompanist
• compositions: mainly choral works and other vocal pieces, chamber music for various instrumentations

Works for accordion
• Suite, op. 40, 1945
  1. Präludium
  2. Walzer-Scherzo
  3. Elegisches Pastorale
  4. Rondino alla burla
• Paganiniana, op. 52, 1952
  (dedicated to German accordion champions 1949-1952)
  I. Teil (part 1)
  Thema (Allegro)
  Etüde 1 (Perpetuum mobile)
  Etüde 2 (Toccata I)
  Etüde 3 (Invention I)
  Etüde 4 (Capriccio I)
  Etüde 5
  Etüde 6 (Invention II)
  Etüde 7
  Etüde 8
  Etüde 9 (Fantasia)
  Etüde 10
  Etüde 11 (Serenade)
  II. Teil (part 2)
  Etüde 12 (Capriccio II)
  Etüde 13 (Toccata II)
  Etüde 14
  Etüde 15 (Scherzino I)
  Etüde 16 (Scherzino II)
  Etüde 17 (Rhapsodie)
  Etüde 18
• Autumn Elegy and Capriccio, op. 57, 1953
  I. Autumn Elegy
  II. Capriccio
• Allegro veloce, 1956
• Divertimento in F, op. 59, 1956
  I. (Serenata)
  II. (Intermezzo ostinato)
  III.
• Poco allegro ed amabile, 1956

Links
• Wilhelm Kempff by Consul B. John Zavrel