Hans Erich Apostel was a German-born Austrian composer of classical music
Education
From 1916 to 1919 he studied piano, conducting and music theory in Karlsruhe with Alfred Lorenz. He studied in Vienna with Arnold Schoenberg from 1921–1925, and from 1925-1935 with Alban Berg, two prominent members of the Second Viennese School.
Career
In 1920 he was Kapellmeister and Répétiteur at the Badischen Landestheater in Karlsruhe. At the same time, he taught piano, composition and music theory privately. During the Nazi period his music was proscribed as "degenerate", but he continued to live in Vienna until his death in 1972.
Apostel was active as a pianist, accompanist, and conductor of contemporary music in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.
After the war, he was prominent in the Austrian branch of the Gesellschaft für Neue Musik, of which he was president from 1947 to 1950. He was an editor for the Universal Edition, and was responsible for new editions of the operas of Alban Berg, Wozzeck (published in 1955) and Lulu (published in 1963).
He is buried in the Zentralfriedhof in Vienna, Group 32C, Number.