Georg Friedrich Haas
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Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer of spectral music
.
He grew up in Tschagguns
(Vorarlberg) and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd
, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz
. Since 1978 he been teaching at the Hochschule as an instructor, and since 1989 as an associate professor in counterpoint, contemporary composition techniques, analysis, and introduction to microtonal music. Haas completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna
with Friedrich Cerha
, participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1980, 1988 and 1990), and the computer music course at IRCAM
(1991). He received a fellowship from the Salzburg Festival
(1992-93), was awarded the Sandoz Prize (1992) and a music grant from the National Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (1995). Since 2005 he has lectured at the Hochshule in Basel
Haas' style recalls that of György Ligeti
in its use of micropolyphony, microintervals and the exploitation of the overtone series. His works have been on the programs of the following festivals: Wien Modern (Vienna), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Witten, Huddersfield
, Royaumont, Venice Biennale
, Festival d'Automne (Paris), as well as at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse] and the http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/das-programm/konzert/konzert-detail?programid=4523&id=0&sid=93#hw-item-1924Salzburg Festival 2011. He is a founding member of the Graz composers' collective Die andere Seite. According to Alex Ross in the New Yorker
, he lives in Basel
, Switzerland. He composes in a cottage in Fischbach
, Styria.
, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Alois Hába
, and Pierre Boulez
.
Spectral music
Spectral music is a musical composition practice where compositional decisions are often informed by the analysis of sound spectra. Computer-based sound spectrum analysis using tools like DFT, FFT, and spectrograms...
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He grew up in Tschagguns
Tschagguns
Tschagguns is a village in the Montafon valley, Bludenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria. Tschagguns offers skiing with its own ski resort called Golm. Tschagguns offers hiking, mountain biking, winter sports and much more. Gauertal is a valley found in Tschagguns between Mittagspitze and Golm. It is...
(Vorarlberg) and studied composition with Gösta Neuwirth, Iván Erőd
Iván Eröd
Iván Erőd, also Iván Eröd , is an Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.- Career :Erőd studied at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music with Pál Kadosa and Ferenc Szabó . He emigrated to Austria in 1956 and studied there at the Vienna Music Academy, with Richard Hauser and Karl Schiske...
, and piano with Doris Wolf at the Musikhochschule in Graz
Graz
The more recent population figures do not give the whole picture as only people with principal residence status are counted and people with secondary residence status are not. Most of the people with secondary residence status in Graz are students...
. Since 1978 he been teaching at the Hochschule as an instructor, and since 1989 as an associate professor in counterpoint, contemporary composition techniques, analysis, and introduction to microtonal music. Haas completed two years of postgraduate studies at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
with Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha
Friedrich Cerha is an Austrian composer and conductor.-Biography:Cerha was born in Vienna.He received his education at the Viennese Music Academy and at the University of Vienna...
, participated in the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (1980, 1988 and 1990), and the computer music course at IRCAM
IRCAM
IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
(1991). He received a fellowship from the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
(1992-93), was awarded the Sandoz Prize (1992) and a music grant from the National Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (1995). Since 2005 he has lectured at the Hochshule in Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
Haas' style recalls that of György Ligeti
György Ligeti
György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...
in its use of micropolyphony, microintervals and the exploitation of the overtone series. His works have been on the programs of the following festivals: Wien Modern (Vienna), Musikprotokoll (Graz), Witten, Huddersfield
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is held in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England. It has a repertoire of cutting-edge jazz, orchestral, choral and electroacoustic performances, along with film, dance and music theatre...
, Royaumont, Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
, Festival d'Automne (Paris), as well as at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse] and the http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/das-programm/konzert/konzert-detail?programid=4523&id=0&sid=93#hw-item-1924Salzburg Festival 2011. He is a founding member of the Graz composers' collective Die andere Seite. According to Alex Ross in the New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, he lives in Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, Switzerland. He composes in a cottage in Fischbach
Fischbach, Styria
Fischbach is a municipality in the district of Weiz in Styria, Austria. On 27th of February, 2003, it has been officially recognized as an air cure place by the Styrian government...
, Styria.
Works
He has published musicological articles on the works of Luigi NonoLuigi Nono
Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and remains one of the most prominent composers of the 20th century.- Early years :Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter...
, Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Alois Hába
Alois Hába
Alois Hába was a Czech composer, musical theorist and teacher. He is primarily known for his microtonal compositions, especially using the quarter tone scale, though he used others such as sixth-tones and twelfth-tones....
, and Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Boulez is a French composer of contemporary classical music, a pianist, and a conductor.-Early years:Boulez was born in Montbrison, Loire, France. As a child he began piano lessons and demonstrated aptitude in both music and mathematics...
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- Adolf WölfliAdolf WölfliAdolf Wölfli was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label.-Early life:...
, Chamber operaChamber operaChamber opera is a designation for operas written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.The term and form were invented by Benjamin Britten in the 1940s, when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in a variety of small...
(Graz 1981) - Sextet for 3 violas and 3 cellos (1982)
- Drei Hommages für einen Pianisten und zwei im Abstand eines Vierteltons gestimmte Klaviere (1985)
- ...Schatten...durch unausdenkliche Wälder for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists (1992)
- Descendiendo for orchestra (1993)
- ...., Double Concerto for accordion, viola and chamber ensemble (1994)
- ...aus freier Lust...verbunden... for various instrumentations (1994)
- Nacht-Schatten (1994 Bregenz)
- Nacht, Chamber Opera in 24 scenes (UA konzertant 1996 Bregenz, szenisch 1998 Bregenz); libretto by the composer after texts by Friedrich HölderlinFriedrich HölderlinJohann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin was a major German lyric poet, commonly associated with the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Hölderlin was also an important thinker in the development of German Idealism, particularly his early association with and philosophical influence on his...
- Fremde Welten, Concerto for piano and 20 stringed instruments (1997)
- Concerto for violin and orchestra (1998)
- Nach-ruf...ent-gleitend... for ensemble (1999)
- Torso for large orchestra after the unfinished Piano Sonata in C major, D.840 by Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
(1999–2000) - in vain for 24 instruments (2000/02)
- ...sodass ich’s hernach mit einem Blick gleichsam wie ein schönes Bild... im Geist übersehe (2001)
- tria ex uno for ensemble (2001–2002)
- de terrae fine for violin solo (2001)
- Blumenstück (2001)
- flow and friction for sixteenth-tone piano 4-hands (2001)
- String Quartet No.3 "In iij. Noct" (2003)
- Die schöne Wunde, Opera after Franz KafkaFranz KafkaFranz Kafka was a culturally influential German-language author of short stories and novels. Contemporary critics and academics, including Vladimir Nabokov, regard Kafka as one of the best writers of the 20th century...
, Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
and others (2003, Bregenz) - Natures mortes for orchestra and accordion (UA Donaueschingen FestivalDonaueschingen FestivalThe Donaueschingen Festival is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen...
2003) - String Quartet No.4 (2003)
- Opus 68 for large orchestra after Piano Sonata No.9 by Alexander ScriabinAlexander ScriabinAlexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...
(2004) - Concerto for cello and large orchestra (2004)
- Haiku for baritone and 10 instruments (2005)
- Ritual for 12 bass drums and 3 wind ensembles (2005)
- Sieben Klangräume (UA Salzburg 2005)
- ....... for viola and 6 voices (2006)
- Hyperion, Konzert für Lichtstimme und Orchester (UA Donaueschingen FestivalDonaueschingen FestivalThe Donaueschingen Festival is a festival for new music that takes place every October in the small town of Donaueschingen...
2006) - Bruchstück for large orchestra (2007)
- Concerto for piano and orchestra (2007)
- Les temps tiraillés for 2 violas, bassoon and electronics (2008)
External links
- Georg Friedrich Haas biography and works on the UE website (publisher)