Klaus Huber
Klaus Huber ( born November 30, 1924 in Bern ) is a Swiss composer, violinist, conductor and teacher of composition.
Life
After his training at teacher training college in Küsnacht and initial education service in the Bernese Oberland, he studied from 1947 to 1955 Music theory and composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Zurich Willy Burkhard, to 1949 and the violin at Stefi Geyer. From 1949 to 1955, Huber violin teacher at the Zurich Conservatory. 1955/56, joined on a study visit with Boris Blacher in Berlin. With his chamber cantata The Angel Anredung to the soul Huber gained at the World Music Days of the International Society for Contemporary Music in 1959 in Rome for the first time international recognition. This was followed by collaborations with flautist Aurèle Nicolet about.
From 1960 to 1963 Huber taught music history at the Conservatory of Lucerne, in 1964 the subjects music theory, composition and instrumentation at the Music Academy of Basel. From 1973 to 1990, he finally had been a professor of composition at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau. Include Huber's students, among others, Brian Ferneyhough, Wolfgang Rihm, Daniel Glaus, André Richard, Reinhard Febel, Ulrich Gasser, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh -Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Kaija Saariaho and Hans Wüthrich.
Klaus Huber is married to his former student Younghi Pagh -Paan.
Musical work
Klaus Huber's starting point was the serial music in the wake of Anton Webern. However, he left outside the serial technique always open to creative freedom. Since the 1980s, he turned his attention increasingly to the Arab music. This also resulted in his employment with Arabic rhythm models, micro- tonality (especially third tones) and Arabic poetry.
Huber's work is based on spiritual matters. His compositions are evidence of social and political engagement, but are not in the true sense of Christian- religious, but rather humanistic motivated despite their use of sacred texts such as the Bible or medieval mystics. A central significance have large-scale oratorio compositions like ... inwardly full figure ... his contribution to Dürer 1971. Besides chamber music occupies an important position. Increasingly, Huber moved into a the scenic design of music outside of oratorio and opera.