Whenever possible, she still attends performances of her works. Actual events or her own visions have always served as catalysts for her instrumental or text-related compositions. This must not be confused with political music which in most cases implies party-political interests, whereas I have never been attached to any party and would never even think of joining one, either . This was written many years ago by a woman of slight stature and a wide-awake intellect, but also a woman blessed with an unusually strong musical sensuousness and a vigorous humanity. For decades she has employed her great artistic talents in the fight against the inhumanity of our age, an age that has got out of step.
Music degenerates into something that is just pleasing to the ear.
The artistic designs of the composer Grete von Zieritz have always been aimed at combating these gradually hardening trends through the rigorous use of the means at her disposal. She was born in Vienna in 1899, the daughter of an Imperial and Royal Austrian general and she was probably still very young when she determined the strict lines of the path she had chosen to take together with the expressive observance of early established ethical standards and her love for music, which as she says herself is a genetic legacy from her Prussian grandfather and his Hungarian wife. I can hear that certain rhythmic clip-clop of the horses hooves on the granite cobbles. Climbing on the windowsill I see a funeral procession passing by and jumping back down to the piano I integrate this rhythm into my first extemporisation. This, my first musical activity, prompted my family to let me take piano lessons.