Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas ( born August 16, 1953 in Graz) is an Austrian composer.

Career

Growing up is Georg Friedrich Haas in Tschagguns (Vorarlberg). He studied from 1972 to 1979 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz composition ( including among Iván Eröd and Gösta Neuwirth ), piano ( Doris Wolf) and music education. Haas is a founding member of the Graz Composers' Union and the other string. From 1981 to 1983 Haas studied with Friedrich Cerha in Vienna. He took several times at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and the " Stage d' Informatique Musicale pour compositeur " at IRCAM in Paris.

Teaching

Georg Friedrich Haas taught first as a lecturer and later intermittently as a professor at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, inter alia, the subjects of contemporary compositional techniques and counterpoint. Since autumn 2005 he has also been a lecturer in composition at the Conservatory of Music of the Music Academy of Basel. Since September 2013 he has been Professor of Composition at Columbia University in New York.

Aesthetics and work

Georg Friedrich Haas is considered a representative of spectral music. His works are distinguished primarily by phonetic experiments that often go back to a breaking up of the twelve-tone system for intensive use of microtones and Panchromatik and special overtone series. Haas ' aesthetics is based on the conviction, Music virtue ' emotions and mental states of people to formulate so that it can be adopted as its also from other people. " So Haas with the intellectualism (eg of deconstructivism ) broken many currents of the musical avant-garde. Many of his compositions revolve around the thematic poles night, aliens and romance.

Awards

Georg Friedrich Haas received a 1992 Sandoz Prize and the 1998 Ernst Krenek Prize. He was awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize for Music Award 2006 ( awarded on 28 November 2007) and a member of the Austrian Art Senate. In the fall of 2007, the Wien Modern festival Haas devoted an emphasis. In May 2012, he was appointed to the Academy of Arts in Berlin. Haas won the 2013 Salzburg Music Prize.

Compositions and writings

  • Wölfli. Chamber Opera (Graz 1981)
  • Three tributes for a pianist and two tuned at intervals of a fourth Elton's pianos (1985 )
  • Shadow ... ... by unausdenkliche forests for two pianos and two percussionists (1992 )
  • Descendiendo for Orchestra ( 1993)
  • Free from lust ... connected ... ... for various occupations (1994 )
  • Night Shadow (1994 Bregenz)
  • Night. Chamber opera in 24 images. Libretto by the composer based on texts by Friedrich Hölderlin (UA concert 1996 Bregenz, Bregenz scenic 1998 )
  • Strange Worlds. Concerto for Piano and Strings 20 (1997)
  • String Quartet No. 1 (1997)
  • String Quartet No. 2 (1998)
  • Violin Concerto (1998)
  • After - call ... ent - sliding ... for ensemble (1999)
  • Torso. After the unfinished Piano Sonata in C major, D. 840 by Franz Schubert for large orchestra (1999 /2000)
  • In vain for 24 instruments (2000/ 02)
  • Afterwards ... so I like a beautiful picture ... 's overlook with a view to speak in the Spirit (2001)
  • Tria ex uno for ensemble (2001/ 02)
  • De terrae fine for solo violin (2001)
  • Flower Piece (2001)
  • Flow and friction for sixteenth-tone piano, four hands (2001)
  • String Quartet No. 3 " In iij. Noct " (2003)
  • The beautiful wound. Opera based on Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe and others ( 2003 Bregenz)
  • Natures mortes for orchestra and accordion ( UA Donaueschingen Music Days 2003 )
  • 4th String Quartet (2003)
  • Opus 68 for large orchestra after the Piano Sonata No. 9 by Alexander Scriabin (2004)
  • Concerto for cello and orchestra (2004)
  • Haiku for Baritone and 10 instruments (2005)
  • Ritual for twelve large drums and three brass bands (2005)
  • Seven sound spaces (UA Salzburg 2005)
  • Hyperion. Concerto for light voice and orchestra ( UA Donaueschingen Music Days 2006 )
  • Fragment for large orchestra (2007)
  • String Quartet No. 5 (2007)
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra ( 2007)
  • Melancholia. Opera based on the novel by Jon Fosse (2008)
  • La profondeur for 13 instrumentalists (2009)
  • Limited approximations. for six wings and orchestra (UA: Donaueschingen Music Days 2010 )
  • String Quartet No. 6 (2010)
  • Bluthaus. Opera on a libretto by Klaus Händl (UA: Schwetzingen Festival 2011)
  • Tetraedrite for orchestra (2011 /12)
  • Thomas. Opera on a libretto by Klaus Händl (UA: Schwetzingen Festival 2013)
  • Scholarly articles on the work of Luigi Nono, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Alois Haba and Pierre Boulez
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