Martin Haselböck

Haselboeck Martin ( born November 23, 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian organist, conductor and composer.

Biography

Hailing from a family of musicians Haselboeck put his graduation with honors from the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna. Even as a high school student he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music Church Music, Organ, Recorder Concert specialist and composition. His teachers were Michael Radulescu (organ), his father Hans Haselboeck (organ improvisation ), Hans Gilles Berger ( choral conducting ), Anton Heiller (Religious composition) and Friedrich Cerha (composition). 1974 and 1976 he passed the final exams for church music and organ concert from specialist with distinction and promotion prices of the Ministry of Education. 1975/76 joined to a year of study with Jean Langlais and Daniel Roth in Paris. Alongside his music studies, he studied at the Vienna University of Philosophy and Art History.

The educator

1977 Martin Haselboeck was professor of organ at Luther College, Iowa, USA. From this important for the American church music training school, he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2003.

From 1978 to 1986 he taught as a visiting lecturer for basso Internship and organ at the Vienna Academy of Music. 1986 Martin Haselboeck a professorship (C4 ) was appointed to the Musikhochschule Lübeck, he conducted several years the local Institute of Sacred Music, among his pupils are numerous winners of major international competitions, organist important Cathedrals and churches, and even teachers at major institutions in Europe and overseas.

For many projects, so the Buxtehude Congress in 1987, the Krenek Festival 1989, which Distler Festival in 1998 and the Schnitger Festival 2001 he was responsible as the organizer. 2003 Martin Haselboeck was appointed professor of organ at the University of Music in Vienna. At many other universities Haselboeck worked as a visiting professor, so at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Yale University, the Amsterdam Conservatory, the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

He was judge of the great organ competitions in Haarlem, Chartres, Dallas, Calgary, Pretoria, Lahti, Paris, Odense, Nuremberg, St. Albans, inter alia, as editor, he edited more than seventy volumes of organ music, the complete organ works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Liszt.

The composer and publisher

As a composer, was Martin Haselboeck student of Erich Romanovsky, Anton Heiller and Friedrich Cerha. Several major works combine language and sound. In this area there were specific suggestions by working with Ernst Jandl and Mayröcker

Selected works:

• Manelom for 3 sopranos and 17 instruments ( 1976) Universal Edition
• Daily tides for speaker and chamber orchestra ( F. Mayröcker ) ( 1993) Doblinger
• Jandl Requiem for speaker and large string orchestra (F. Mayröcker ) (2000 ) Universal Edition
• " World customs " literary-musical action by Ernst Jandl and Martin Haselboeck (1982 )
• Six fairs, including "Konrad fair" for three soloists ( choir ad lib.), Percussion and organ (1996 ) Universal Edition, numerous propers and smaller church works
• Several works for organ, organ voice and organ with instruments.

From 1978 to 2000, Martin Haselboeck editor of the Universal organ edition. With more than 85 titles together with Thomas Daniel Schlee supervised by him series has become one of the most important recent series of editions printed organ music. Haselböck contributions include the first editions of all the organ works of Franz Liszt and Mozart, as well as the large-scale anthology " organ music of the Viennese court organist ". A book " Franz Liszt and the Organ " was released in 1998.

The organist

A worldwide concert organist Martin leads Haselboeck regularly among the most important music festivals. Since 1970 he gave concerts and recitals in the world: Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. As a soloist he has performed under Claudio Abbado, Lorin Maazel, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Horst Stein on inter alia. In December 1993, he consecrated two concerts a great Klais organ in the Athens Concert Hall.

About sixty recordings document his wide repertoire, ranging from Bach to Liszt to modern. Multiple his shots were excellent, so with the German Record Critics' Award, the Diapason d'Or and the Hungarian Liszt Prize. Numerous important masters of our time (Alfred Schnittke, Cristobal Halffter, Gilbert Amy, and others) have written for Martin Haselboeck. Ernst Krenek also dedicated his two organ concerts. Important recordings of the last time the organ works of Liszt at Ladegast organs.

As a consultant he was involved in the planning stages of major new organs and the restoration of important historic organs, as the Wiener Musikverein, the Cathedral of Mexico City, the Disney Hall Los Angeles.

The conductor

In his capacity as court organist in Vienna dealing with the large repertoire of classical church music, the beginning of the intensive work as a conductor was. This led in 1986 to the founding of the ensemble orchestra Wiener Akademie. In addition to an annual cycle for the Society of Friends of Music in the Great Hall Viennese music clubs he is with his orchestra with concert programs and opera productions regularly in the music centers around the world as a guest. About 60 CDs with repertoire ranging from Bach to the 20th century are published under the direction of Martin Haselboeck. Among the awards for his orchestral recordings include the Diapason d' Or and the German Record Prize. In numerous festivals as the Philharmonie in Cologne, the Suntory Hall in Cologne and the Würzburg Mozart Festival Martin Haselboeck guested with his Viennese Academy as Artists in Residence.

Martin Haselboeck was also a guest conductor with numerous orchestras, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milano, the National philharmonic of Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, with a focus of his work is on the living mediation of baroque and classical works. With the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, he conducts a yearly cycle with works of the Viennese classics in the Hamburg Music Hall. Since 2004, Martin Haselboeck Music Director of Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra in Los Angeles. With this ensemble he designed several cycles in Los Angeles. Culmination of the previous work with his two ensembles was a large-scale tour with Bach's St. Matthew Passion with 13 concerts in Mexico, the U.S., Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany and Austria.

Since his debut at the Handel Festival in Göttingen Haselboeck is always successful as an opera conductor. The great operas of Mozart, he was able to perform in new productions at the theater in Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen for the first time in Germany with historical instruments. His " Don Giovanni " in 1991 awarded the Mozart Prize of the city of Prague. Since 2000 Haselboeck has directed fourteen new productions at festivals in Salzburg, Schwetzingen, Vienna and at the opera houses of Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne and Halle. Since 2007 he has been artistic director of the Reinberg Festival, where he has emerged with productions of Der Freischütz and Fidelio.

Awards (excerpt)

Martin Haselboeck received several awards, the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, the Prague Mozart Prize in 1991, the Hungarian Liszt Prize in 2010 and the Grand Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria