Heinz Holliger (born May 21, 1939) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor. Events 878 - Syracuse Italy is captured by the Muslim sultan of Sicily. Year 1939 ( MCMXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation "Hautbois" redirects here for the strawberry variety see Hautbois strawberry. A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance Conducting is the act of directing a Musical performance by way of visible gestures
He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. Langenthal is a municipality in the district of Aarwangen in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. A university school of music or college of music, or academy of music or conservatoire ( French, but used in British English) &mdash The city of Berne or Bern (, Berne, Berna, Romansh: Berna, Bernese German: Bärn) is the Bundesstadt ( Federal "Basilia" redirects here For the Fly Genus, see Basilia (fly. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez. Sándor Veress (born in Kolozsvár, died in Bern) was a Swiss Composer of Hungarian origin WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Pierre Boulez (pjɛʁ buˈlɛz (b He took first prize for oboe in the International Competition in Geneva in 1959. Geneva (Genève is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French -speaking
He has become one of the world's most celebrated oboists, and numerous works have been written for him. He began teaching at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1966.
In 1972 Holliger, Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), and Christiane Jaccottet (continuo) et al recorded the Six Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Bassoon by Jan Dismas Zelenka. The bassoon is a Woodwind instrument in the Double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and Tenor registers and occasionally Jan Dismas Zelenka, also known as Johann Dismas Zelenka (October 16 1679 &ndash December 23 1745 was a Czech Baroque Composer. This recording is credited for the "Zelenka Renaissance".
Holliger has also composed many works in a variety of media. As an ECM artist, recordings of some of his works are readily available for buying. ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music is a Record label founded in Munich, Germany in 1969 by Manfred Eicher.
Awards
- Léonie Sonning Music Prize (1987; Denmark)
- Zurich Festival Prize (2007) [1]
Selected works
- Sequenzen über Johannes I,32 (1962) for harp
- Streichquartett (1973) for string quartet
- Scardanelli-Zyklus (1975–1991) for solo flute, small orchestra, tape and mixed choir
- Come and Go / Va et vient / Kommen und Gehen (1976/1977), opera to a text by Samuel Beckett
- Not I (1978–1980) monodrama for soprano and tape
- Lieder ohne Worte (1982–1994), two sets of works for violin and piano
- What Where (1988), chamber opera
- Alb-Chehr (1991) for speaker, singers and chamber ensemble
- Konzert (Hommage à Louis Soutter) (1993–1995) for violin and orchestra
- Schneewittchen (1998), opera based on a text by Robert Walser
External links
- Heinz Holliger at Schott Music
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