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Heinz Robert Holliger (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, virtuoso oboist, and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classical pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known pieces of Romantic music, as well as his own compositions. He often performed contemporary works with his wife, the harpist Ursula Holliger. Many composers have written works for him, including Messiaen, Berio, Carter, Henze, Krenek, Lutosławski, Martin, Penderecki, Stockhausen and Yun. A noted composer himself, Hollinger has written works such as the opera Schneewittchen (1998).
Biography
Holliger was born in Langenthal, Switzerland. An oboist since age eleven, he studied at the conservatory of Bern before taking first prize in oboe at the Geneva International Music Competition in 1959. In 1966, he began teaching at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg.
He has become one of the world's most celebrated oboists. Many composers have written works for him, including Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Hans Werner Henze, Ernst Krenek, Witold Lutosławski, Frank Martin, Krzysztof Penderecki, Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sándor Veress and Isang Yun.
In 1972, Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Christiane Jaccottet (continuo), Holliger, and others recorded Jan Dismas Zelenka's Six Trio Sonatas for oboe and bassoon. This recording is credited for the "Zelenka Renaissance".
He was married to the harpist Ursula Holliger, née Hänggi (1937–2014).
Music
Having studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez, he has composed many works in a variety of genres, and many of his works have been recorded for the ECM label. Holliger was invited by Walter Fink to be the 17th composer featured in the 2007 Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival, where he conducted Claude Debussy's and Robert Schumann's music as well as his own Lieder (which set Georg Trakl poems) and Gesänge der Frühe (which set Friedrich Hölderlin and Schumann texts).
For New Music patron Paul Sacher's 70th birthday, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked twelve composers, Sacher's friends, to write music for solo cello using the Sacher hexachord. (This musical cryptogram is eS, A, C, H, E, and Re, or "Sacher" spelled with German words for the pitch classes.) Holliger contributed a chaconne. Some of the compositions were premiered in Zurich on 2 May 1976. Czech cellist František Brikcius gave the entire "eSACHERe" project its premiere in Prague during May 2011.
Awards
1987: Léonie Sonning Music Prize
1991: Ernst von Siemens Music Prize
1994: The Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Prize for (S)irató
2007: Zürich Festival Prize
2008: Rheingau Musik Preis
2016: Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2017: Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau
2018: Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
2022: Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music
Selected works
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Sequenzen über Johannes I,32 (1962) for harp
Siebengesang (1966–1967) for solo oboe, orchestra, voices and loudspeaker
String Quartet (1973)
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
Studie über Mehrklänge (1979) for oboe solo
Lieder ohne Worte (1982–1994), two sets of works for violin and piano
Präludium, Arioso and Passacaglia, for two guitars (1985)
Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, after Schumann and Hölderlin (1987)
What Where (1988), chamber opera
Alb-Chehr (1991) for speaker, singers and chamber ensemble
(S)irató for orchestra (1992–03)
Fünf Lieder für Altstimme und großes Orchester nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl (1992–2006)
Violin Concerto "Hommage à Louis Soutter" (1993–1995)
Schneewittchen (1998), opera based on a text by Robert Walser
Partita (1999), piano cycle
Puneigä, ten songs with twelve players after Anna Maria Bacher's poems (2000/02)
Ma'mounia for percussion solo and instrumental quintet (2002)
Romancendres for cello and piano (2003)
Induuchlen, four songs for counter-tenor and horn, for Klaus Huber (2004)
Toronto-Exercises for flute (also alto flute), clarinet, violin, harp and marimbaphone (2005)
Lunea (2018), opera based on texts by Nikolaus Lenau
Discography
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonatas (ECM, 1997)
Sándor Veress: Passacaglia / Songs / Musica Concertante (ECM, 2000)
Beiseit / Alb-Chehr (ECM, 2000)
Lauds and Lamentations (ECM, 2003)
References
= Notes
== Citations
== Bibliography
=Further reading
Buell, Richard (27 March 1984). "Oboist Holliger at Musica Viva". The Boston Globe. Boston. p. 26. Retrieved 31 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
Reich, Howard (1 August 1986). "Heinz Holliger breathes a new sound into two oboe concertos". Chicago Tribune. Chicago. p. 25. Retrieved 31 May 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
Heinz Holliger Schott Music
Heinz Holliger ECM Records
Heinz Holliger discography at Discogs
Katharina Jing An Gebauer (March 2008). "Heinz Holliger – Leben und Werk" (PDF). BA (Composition) Thesis (in German). Archived from the original (PDF (18MB)) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 22 May 2008.
Heinz Holliger on 1969 tour of Southern Africa, organised by Hans Adler
Holliger Heinz (1939) Cdmc website
Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of SRG SSR on Neo.Mx3
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- Heinz Holliger
- Sándor Veress
- Ursula Holliger
- András Schiff
- Oboe
- Isang Yun
- Paul Sacher
- ECM Records discography
- Breitkopf & Härtel
- Swiss Chamber Soloists
