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Heinz Holliger

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Heinz Holliger (b. 1939) is known as among the world’s leading oboe virtuosos, and a observed composer and conductor. He started playing recorder at age group four and piano at six. Ultimately he turned to oboe, learning with Cassagnaud and Veress on the Berne Conservatory. Then transferred to Paris to review oboe with Pierlot, and piano with Lefébure. In 1959 he gained a first award for oboe within the Geneva Competition, and in exactly the same calendar year was employed as an oboist with the Basel Symphony Orchestra. On the other hand, he studied structure with Pierre Boulez type 1961 to 1963. His profession as a global oboe virtuoso started in 1963. His trips included solo looks, performances along with his wife, the harpist Ursula Holliger, and chamber music looks using the Holliger Outfit, a chamber group he founded. He was appointed teacher of oboe in the Staatliche Musikhochschule of Freiburg in 1965. He quickly became referred to as the exceptional oboist of that time period. He used the smoother, slimmer French sound as opposed to the wider German quality. Actually by comparison using the French audio, his firmness quality is remarkably bright. He includes a deep understanding for the overall performance practices of most eras of music, and it has garnered particular compliment for his mastery of the numerous prolonged methods linked to the overall performance of twentieth hundred years music. He’s acknowledged with having prolonged the technical selection of the device more than some other oboist. A few of these prolonged methods include harmonics, dual trills, multiphonics, and glissandos. In interviews he offers disputed this accreditation, stating, “I’ve invented nothing at all.” He factors to situations where these methods appeared in previously music, such as for example an oboe glissando in Mahler’s Third Symphony, however in reality he was the first ever to make extensive usage of these methods. Furthermore, he has released new sounds achievable only by putting a microphone in the device. He is extremely alert to the necessity for growing the repertoire from the device. He continues to be vital of oboists for not really commissioning challenging brand-new works. He provides commissioned functions from Berio, Stockhausen, Penderecki, Frank Martin, Pousseur, Henze, Krenek, Jolivet, and Lutoslawski. The Lutoslawski function, the Increase Concerto for oboe, harp, and chamber orchestra, created for Holliger and his wife, is known as a masterpiece of 20th hundred years literature. Holliger started composing when he was youthful, and has put together a thorough catalogue in lots of styles. His music is normally thoroughly inspired by Schoenberg, Webern and Luigi Nono. Holliger constructed The Magical Dances for just two dancers, chorus, orchestra, and tape, a function of remarkable aural thickness and great nuances. He in addition has utilized Indian rhythms to represent particular poetic imagery. In Pneuma (1970) for thirty-six winds, four radios, body organ, and percussion, he needs the performers to create specific breathing noises into microphones, and Cardiophonie uses an amplified stethoscope mounted on a solo breeze player to include the players pulse towards the music. Generally Holliger’s music includes a extremely tight internal reasoning due to the strict usage of serial techniques, and his musical textures can range between gradual, attenuated wisps of audio to combos of instrumental audio so thick they virtually become “white sound.” His compositions are nearly uniformly technically tough to execute, and highly complicated to hear.

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Full Name Heinz Holliger
Profession Composer, Conductor, Oboist
Nationality Swiss
Spouse Ursula Holliger
Albums Holliger: Scardanelli - Zyklus, Oboe Sonatas, Concerti per Oboe, Oboe Concertos, 3 Oboe Concertos (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields feat. oboe: Heinz Holliger, conductor: Iona Brown), Concerti da camera, Virtuose Oboenkonzerte (Eloquence), Beiseit / Alb-Chehr, Lieder ohne Worte (feat. violin: Thomas Zehetmair, piano: Thomas Larcher, harp: Ursula Holliger), Die Mannheimer Schule, Telemann: Oboe Concertos, Oboensonaten, Lebrun / Mozart: Oboe Concertos, Schumann: Works for Oboe and Piano, 3 Concertos, Holliger: Siebengesang; Der magische Tänzer, Richard Strauss: Oboe Concerto; Metamorphosen, Albinoni: Oboe Concertos, Heinz Holliger at the Opera, Bach: Oboe Concerto in F; Oboe Concerto in D minor; Oboe Concerto in A, Chamber Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2 / Verklärte Nacht, Koechlin: Vers La Voute Etoilee, Op. 129 / Le Docteur Fabricius, Op. 202, Fables, Vivaldi: 6 Concertos for Oboe & Strings, Symphony for Wind Instruments / Suite for 13 Winds, Op. 4 / Serenade, Op. 7, Mozart: Oboe Quartet; Divertimento No. 11; Adagio In C; Nannerl-Septett, Handel: Oboe Concertos Nos.1-3/Concerto Grosso "Alexander's Feast" etc., Schneewittchen (Orchester de Oper Zürich, feat. conductor: Heinz Hollinger, singers: Banse, Kallisch, Davislim, Widmer, Gröschel), Graun / Krebs / Telemann: Oboe Concertos, Six Concerti, Op. 9 (I Musici), Concertos and Sinfonias for Oboe / Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, Mozart: Klarinettenkonzert (CC), The Henze Collection, Doppio concerto / Sonata per Archi / Fantasia für Streicher, Britten: 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid; Temporal Variations; Phantasy; 2 Insect Pieces / Mozart: Oboe Quartet, Maderna: Oboe Concertos Nos. 1-3, Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 & Chamber Symphony No. 2, Op 38 - Webern: Langsamer Satz, Schönberg : Chamber Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & Verklärte Nacht - Apex, Marcello: 6 Concerti "La Cetra", Sacher Commissioned Works, Violinkonzert, Johann Sebastian Bach: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, J.S. Bach: Concertos And Sinfonias For Oboe, Isang Yun: Double Concerto & Images, Schumann: Complete Symphonic Works, Vol. II, Albinoni: 12 Concerti Op. 7; 2 Sonatas Op. 2, Mendelssohn: Symphonies No. 3 & 4, Bach, J.S.: 6 Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530, Koechlin: Les Heures Persanes, Op. 65Bis, Bach, C.P.E.: 4 Flute Concertos; 2 Oboe Concertos, etc., Concertos for Flute and Oboe, The Ligeti Project IV: Hamburg Concerto / Double Concerto / Ramifications / Requiem (London Voices/Terry Edwards; Asko Ensemble & Schönberg Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw; Berliner Philharmoniker/Jonathan Tott)
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1 Awarded the Frankfurt Music Prize in 1988.
2 Considered world's leading oboist.


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Through the Olive Trees 1994 performer: "Conc. C 4.Allegro Giusto"
Nouvelle vague 1990 "Trema für Violoncello Solo"

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Branca de Neve 2000 music

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Passion Hölderlin 2004 Documentary Himself

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