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== Compositions ==
== Compositions ==
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Huber's compositions include:


=== Stage works ===
=== Stage works ===

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For the Austrian ski jumper, see Klaus Huber (ski jumper).
Klaus Huber
Huber in 1981
Born(1924-11-30)30 November 1924
Bern, Switzerland
Died2 October 2017(2017-10-02) (aged 92)
Perugia, Italy
EducationZurich University of the Arts
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
AwardsErnst von Siemens Music Prize

Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017)[1][2] was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students are Brian Ferneyhough, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.

Life

Born in Bern, Huber first studied from 1947 to 1949 violin and music pedagogy at the Zurich Conservatory[3] with Stefi Geyer.[4] From 1949 to 1955, he was a violin teacher at the Zurich Conservatory.[5] At the same time he studied composition with Willy Burkhard.[6] He continued his composition studies with Boris Blacher in Berlin.[4]

As a composer, Huber began with serial music influenced by Anton Webern.[5] His international breakthrough came in 1959 with the world premiere of his chamber cantata "Des Engels Anredung an die Seele" at the Weltmusiktage (Days of World music) of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik in Rome.[5] Unusually for the time, he used consonant intervals within a strictly serial context.[7]

He became one of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, compared to Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.[5] He composed extensively for chamber ensembles, choirs, soloists and orchestra. His works for the theatre look for scenes beyond opera and oratorio. Huber was a socially and politically conscious composer and his music often conveys a humanistic message. He set texts by biblical prophets and medieval mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen.[5] He was also inspired by texts of Augustine, Andreas Gryphius, Ernst Bloch, Heinrich Böll, and of Latin American liberation theologians.[6] From the 1980s, Huber studied Arabic music and poetry and included their influences in his works.[5]

Huber taught composition at the City of Basel Music Academy (1961–72) and at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg (1973–90). He was also appointed director of the composition seminars at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven, Netherlands, in 1966, 1968 and 1972.[8] Additionally, he held international visiting professorships and composition classes in (among others) Paris, London, Geneva, Milan, Lyon, Montreal, Sarajevo and Tatui (Brazil).[9] Several of his students became internationally recognized composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, Younghi Pagh-Paan (later his wife), Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm and Kaija Saariaho.[6] He was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin from 1986.[3] His manuscripts are kept by the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel.[8]

Compositions

Huber's compositions include:

Stage works

  • Schwarzerde (1997–2001) Stage work in nine sequences. Text: Michael Schindhelm in cooperation with Klaus Huber, based on poems and prose texts by Ossip Mandelstam [8]

Orchestral works

Ensemble works

  • Miserere hominibus... (2005/2006) Cantata for seven solo voices and seven instrumentalists. Text: Psalm 51, Octavio Paz (Il Cántaro Roto), Mahmoud Darwish (Murale), Carl Améry (Global Exit), Jacques Derrida (Un très proche Orient, Paroles de paix) [8]
  • Die Seele muss vom Reittier steigen... (2002) for violoncello solo, baritone solo, counter tenor (or alto) and 37 instrumentalists. Text: Mahmoud Darwish [8]
  • Lamentationes Sacrae et Profanae ad Responsoria Iesualdi (1993/1996-97) for six singers and two instrumentalists. Text: Jeremiah, Klaus Huber, Ernesto Cardenal, Mahmud Doulatabadi [8]
  • L'ombre de notre âge (1998/1999) for chamber ensemble [8]
  • Intarsi In memoriam Witold Lutoslawski (1993/94) Chamber concerto for piano and 17 instruments [8]
  • Die umgepflügte Zeit In memoriam Luigi Nono (1990) Space music for viola d’amore, mezzo-soprano, high tenor, female speaker, 2 mixed ensembles, choir voices and instruments. Text: Ossip Mandelstam [8]
  • La terre des hommes In memoriam Simone Weil (1987–89) for mezzo-soprano, counter tenor/speaker and eighteen instruments. Text: Simone Weil, Ossip Mandelstam [8]

Vocal music

  • ...inwendig voller Figur... (1971) for choir, speakers, tape and large orchestra. Text: From Revelation and by Albrecht Dürer [10]
  • Kleines Requiem for Heinrich Böll (1991) for choir a cappella und bass-baritone (ad lib.). Text: Hildegard von Bingen, excerpt from "Cantiones de Circulo Gyrante" (in Latin) [8]

Chamber music

  • Ecce homines (1997/98) string quintet [8]
  • Agnus Dei cum recordatione Hommage à Jehan Okeghem (1990/91) Text: Gösta Neuwirth Hommage à Jehan Okeghem [8]
  • Des Dichters Pflug (1989) for violin, viola and violoncello (all in three-tone tuning, Dritteltonstimmung) [8]
  • ...von Zeit zu Zeit... (1984/85) string quartet No. 2 [8]

Solo works

  • Intarsimile (2010) for violin solo [8]
  • Winter seeds (1993) for accordion [8]
  • ...Plainte... for Luigi Nono (1990) for viola d'amore in three-tone-tuning [8]
  • Blätterlos (1975) for prepared piano [8]

Awards and recognition

Awards and recognitions received by Huber include:

References

  1. ^ "Fallece El Compositor Suizo Klaus Huber". Platea Magazine (in Italian). October 3, 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ Orlandi, Daniele (October 3, 2017). "Perugia. È morto il Maestro Klaus Huber. Aveva scelto Panicale come sua città". Umbria Notizie (in Italian). Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. ^ a b "Klaus Huber / Komponist" (in German). Akademie der Künste. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Klaus Huber". The Database of Swiss Music. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Oswald, Charlotte (3 October 2017). "Klassische Musik: Komponist Klaus Huber gestorben" (in German). Die Zeit. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  6. ^ a b c Rohm, Helmut (3 October 2017). "Zum Tod des Komponisten Klaus Huber / Lehrer, Weiser, Humanist" (in German). BR. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  7. ^ "Biography at All Music". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Klaus Huber". Ricordi. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  9. ^ a b "Klaus Huber". Schott. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  10. ^ "...inwendig voller Figur..." Schott. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  11. ^ Zurich, Mathias Knauer, attacca programmata,. "Klaus Huber – Biografía". www.klaushuber.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ "Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 / Internationaler Kompositionspreis des Landes Salzburg an Prof. Klaus Huber" (in German). Salzburg. 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  13. ^ "Prize-Winner Archive - Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung". www.evs-musikstiftung.ch. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  14. ^ "Der Ehre wegen: Komponist Klaus Huber besucht die HMT Leipzig und erhält die Ehrendoktorwürde" (PDF) (in German). Leipzig University. 2009. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  15. ^ "Der Deutsche Musikautorenpreis 2013: Die Gewinner" (in German). German Music Authors' Prize. 26 April 2013. Archived from the original on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 27 May 2013. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
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