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* ''Cantiones de Circulo gyrante'' (1985), Space music for three groups and five single players. Text: [[Hildegard of Bingen]], [[Heinrich Böll]], for soloists, speaker, choir, orchestra, two conductors <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''Cantiones de Circulo gyrante'' (1985), Space music for three groups and five single players. Text: [[Hildegard of Bingen]], [[Heinrich Böll]], for soloists, speaker, choir, orchestra, two conductors <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''La terre des hommes'' In memoriam [[Simone Weil]] (1987–89) for mezzo-soprano, countertenor/speaker, and eighteen instruments. Text: Simone Weil, Ossip Mandelstam <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''La terre des hommes'' In memoriam [[Simone Weil]] (1987–89) for mezzo-soprano, countertenor/speaker, and eighteen instruments. Text: Simone Weil, Ossip Mandelstam <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''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 <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''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 <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''Intarsi'' In memoriam [[Witold Lutosławski]] (1993/94) Chamber concerto for piano and 17 instruments <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''Intarsi'' In memoriam [[Witold Lutosławski]] (1993/94) Chamber concerto for piano and 17 instruments <ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''Lamentationes Sacrae et Profanae ad Responsoria Iesualdi'' (1993/1996–97) for six singers and two instrumentalists. Text: [[Jeremiah]], Klaus Huber, Ernesto Cardenal, [[Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]]<ref name="Ricordi" />
* ''Lamentationes Sacrae et Profanae ad Responsoria Iesualdi'' (1993/1996–97) for six singers and two instrumentalists. Text: [[Jeremiah]], Klaus Huber, Ernesto Cardenal, [[Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]]<ref name="Ricordi" />
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Awards and recognitions received by Huber include:
Awards and recognitions received by Huber include:
* 1970: [[Beethoven Prize|Beethoven Prize (Bonn)]] for ''Tenebrae''<ref name="Schott" />
* 1970: [[Beethoven Prize|Beethoven Prize (Bonn)]] for ''Tenebrae''<ref name="Schott" />
* 2000: Honorary Doctorate from [[University of Strasbourg]]<ref name="Ricordi" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klaushuber.com/pagina.php?4,4,|title=Klaus Huber – Biografía|first=Mathias Knauer, attacca programmata|last=Zurich|website=www.klaushuber.com|access-date=3 October 2017}}</ref>
* 2000: Honorary Doctorate from [[University of Strasbourg]]<ref name="Ricordi" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.klaushuber.ch/pagina.php?4,4,|title=Klaus Huber – Biografía|first=Mathias Knauer, attacca programmata|last=Zurich|website=www.klaushuber.ch|access-date=3 October 2017}}</ref>
* 2009:
* 2009:
** [[Salzburg Music Prize]]<ref name="Salzburg" />
** [[Salzburg Music Prize]]<ref name="Salzburg" />
** [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/prize/prize/archive/prize-winner-archive.html|title=Prize-Winner Archive – Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung|website=www.evs-musikstiftung.ch|access-date=3 October 2017}}</ref>
** [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/prize/prize/archive/prize-winner-archive.html|title=Prize-Winner Archive – Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung|website=www.evs-musikstiftung.ch|access-date=3 October 2017|archive-date=3 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203205103/https://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/en/prize/prize/archive/prize-winner-archive.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
** Honorary Doctorate from [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig]]<ref name="Leipzig" />
** Honorary Doctorate from [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig]]<ref name="Leipzig" />
* 2013: [[German Music Authors' Prize]] in the category Lifetime achievement<ref name="Autoren" />
* 2013: [[German Music Authors' Prize]] in the category Lifetime achievement<ref name="Autoren" />
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== External links ==
== External links ==
* [http://www.klaushuber.com Official site including list of works, biographical information etc.]
* [http://www.klaushuber.ch Official site including list of works, biographical information etc.]
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Latest revision as of 13:37, 21 January 2024

For the Austrian ski jumper, see Klaus Huber (ski jumper). For the Swiss footballer, see Klaus Huber (footballer).

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 were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.

Life

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Born in Bern, Huber first studied violin and music pedagogy from 1947 to 1949 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 (World Music Days) of the Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik in Rome.[5][7] Unusually for the time, he used consonant intervals within a strictly serial context.[8]

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 music history at the Lucerne Conservatory from 1960 to 1963,[9] and 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.[10] Additionally, he held international visiting professorships and composition classes in (among others) Paris, London, Geneva, Milan, Lyon, Montreal, Sarajevo, and Tatui (Brazil).[11] Several of his students became internationally recognized composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, 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.[10]

Compositions

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An inventory of Huber's music manuscripts at the Paul Sacher Foundation was published in 2009.[12]

Stage works

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  • Jot oder Wann kommt der Herr zurück / Dialektische Oper in zwei Teilen (1973) Opera in two parts. Text: Philip Oxman, in German by Kurt Marti and Dietrich Ritschl [13]
  • Schwarzerde (1997–2001) Stage work in nine sequences. Text: Michael Schindhelm in cooperation with Klaus Huber, based on poems and prose texts by Osip Mandelstam[10]

Orchestral works

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Ensemble works

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  • Des Engels Anredung an die Seele (1957) for tenor, flute, clarinet, horn, and harp. Text: Johann Georg Albini[15]
  • "Erinnere dich an G..." (1977) for double bass solo and 18 instrumentalists [16]
  • Cantiones de Circulo gyrante (1985), Space music for three groups and five single players. Text: Hildegard of Bingen, Heinrich Böll, for soloists, speaker, choir, orchestra, two conductors [10]
  • La terre des hommes In memoriam Simone Weil (1987–89) for mezzo-soprano, countertenor/speaker, and eighteen instruments. Text: Simone Weil, Ossip Mandelstam [10]
  • 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 [10]
  • Intarsi In memoriam Witold Lutosławski (1993/94) Chamber concerto for piano and 17 instruments [10]
  • Lamentationes Sacrae et Profanae ad Responsoria Iesualdi (1993/1996–97) for six singers and two instrumentalists. Text: Jeremiah, Klaus Huber, Ernesto Cardenal, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi[10]
  • L'ombre de notre âge (1998/1999) for chamber ensemble [10]
  • Die Seele muss vom Reittier steigen... (2002) for cello solo, baritone solo, countertenor (or alto) and 37 instrumentalists. Text: Mahmoud Darwish [10]
  • 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) [10]

Vocal music

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  • ...inwendig voller Figur... (1971) for choir, loudspeakers, tape, and large orchestra. Text: From Revelation and by Albrecht Dürer[17]
  • "...Ausgespannt..." / Geistliche Musik in memoriam Kurt Wolfgang Senn (1972) Sacred music in memory of Kurt Wolfgang Senn, for high baritone, five instrumental groups, percussion, organ, loudspeakers, and tape [18]
  • Kleines Requiem for Heinrich Böll (1991, excerpts from Cantiones de Circulo Gyrante) Little Requiem for Heinrich Böll, for choir a cappella and bass-baritone (ad lib.). Text: Hildegard von Bingen (in Latin) [10]

Chamber music

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  • ...von Zeit zu Zeit... (1984/85) string quartet No. 2 [10]
  • Des Dichters Pflug (1989) for violin, viola, and violoncello (all in three-tone tuning, Dritteltonstimmung) [10]
  • Agnus Dei cum recordatione Hommage à Jehan Okeghem (1990/91) Text: Gösta Neuwirth Hommage à Jehan Okeghem [10]
  • Ecce homines (1997/98) string quintet [10]

Solo works

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  • In memoriam Willy Burkhard (1955) for organ[19]
  • La Chace (1963) for harpsichord [20]
  • To Ask the Flutist (1966) for flute [21]
  • Ein Hauch von Unzeit (1972): No. I for flute and other instruments; no. II for piano; no. V for guitar; no. VI for accordion; no. VII for double bass; no. VIII for cello [22]
  • Blätterlos (1975) for prepared piano[10]
  • Transpositio ad infinitum (1976) for cello[23]
  • ...Plainte... for Luigi Nono (1990) for viola d'amore in three-tone-tuning[10]
  • Winter Seeds (1993) for accordion[10]
  • Intarsimile (2010) for violin[10]

Writings

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Publications with writings by Huber:

  • Umgepflügte Zeit: Gesammelte Schriften (1999): Huber's collected writings.[24]
  • From Time – To Time: The Complete Œuvre (2010), translation of Von Zeit zu Zeit: Das Gesamtschaffen (2009): a book Huber wrote in the format of a dialogue with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf.[25]

Awards and recognition

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Awards and recognitions received by Huber include:

References

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  1. ^ "Fallece El Compositor Suizo Klaus Huber". Platea Magazine (in Italian). 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. ^ Orlandi, Daniele (3 October 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". Die Zeit (in German). 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. ^ Hiekel, Müller & Stoll 2015, p. 71.
  8. ^ "Biography at All Music". allmusic.com. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  9. ^ Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  10. ^ 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 z "Klaus Huber". Ricordi. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Klaus Huber". Schott. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  12. ^ Zimmermann, Heidy; Kilvio Tüscher, Tina, eds. (2009). Sammlung Klaus Huber: Musikmanuskripte. Inventare der Paul Sacher Stiftung / Paul Sacher Stiftung. Mainz: Schott Music. ISBN 978-3-7957-0607-4.
  13. ^ "Jot oder Wann kommt der Herr zurück". Schott. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  14. ^ "Tenebrae". Schott. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  15. ^ "Klaus Huber: Des Engels Anredung an die Seele". UE. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  16. ^ "Erinnere dich an G..." Schott. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  17. ^ "...inwendig voller Figur..." Schott. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  18. ^ ""...Ausgespannt..." / Geistliche Musik in memoriam Kurt Wolfgang Senn". Schott. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  19. ^ "In memoriam Willy Burkhard". Bärenreiter. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  20. ^ "La Chace". Schott. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  21. ^ Fanwick, Susanne (2009). Studien zur zeitgenössischen Musik für Flöte solo in der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (in German). Peter Lang. p. 321. ISBN 978-3-631-58518-4.
  22. ^ "Ein Hauch von Unzeit". Breitkopf. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  23. ^ "Transpositio ad infinitum / for a virtuoso cello". Schott. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  24. ^ Huber, Klaus (1999). Umgepflügte Zeit: Gesammelte Schriften. Edited by Max Nyffeler. Edition MusikTexte, Köln 1999, ISBN 978-3-9803151-5-9.
  25. ^ Huber, Klaus (2010). From Time – To Time: the complete œuvre, in conversation with Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Translated by Hoban, Wieland. Co-authored by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf. Hofheim: Wolke. ISBN 978-3-936000-18-4.
  26. ^ Zurich, Mathias Knauer, attacca programmata. "Klaus Huber – Biografía". www.klaushuber.ch. Retrieved 3 October 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  27. ^ "Musikpreis Salzburg 2009 / Internationaler Kompositionspreis des Landes Salzburg an Prof. Klaus Huber" (in German). Salzburg. 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  28. ^ "Prize-Winner Archive – Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung". www.evs-musikstiftung.ch. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  29. ^ "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.
  30. ^ "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.

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