
Heinz Holliger
À propos de Heinz Holliger
My entire relationship with music is such that I always try to reach its limits. (Heinz Holliger)
Heinz Holliger was born in Langenthal (Switzerland, canton of Berne) on 21 May 1939. During his grammar-school education he already studied oboe with Emile Cassagnaud at the Conservatoire of Berne and composition with Sándor Veress. From 1958 he continued his studies with Yvonne Lefébure (piano) and Pierre Pierlot (oboe) in Paris. Between 1961 and 1963 he studied composition with Pierre Boulez at the Music Academy of Basel. After winning first prizes at international music competitions (Geneva 1959, International Music Competition of the ARD 1961), Holliger began to give worldwide concert performances as an oboist. Contemporary composers such as Hans Werner Henze, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, Elliott Carter, Witold Lutoslawski, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Luciano Berio wrote compositions specially for him. Among his outstanding achievements is the rediscovery of forgotten works by 18th-century composers such as Jan Dismas Zelenka and Ludwig August Lebrun.
Holliger's oeuvre covers all genres – from stage works via orchestral, solo and chamber music works to numerous vocal pieces. Almost all compositions bear testimony to a tireless search for the limits of sound and language. His music is often preceded by an intensive examination of artists' or poets' lives and lyrical texts. He has always been fascinated by artists living on the edge of society or at the edge of life. At this point, the Scardanelli Cycle (1975-85) has to be emphasized, in which Holliger turns the last poems of Friedrich Hölderlin into a cycle of 2.5 hours duration for different instrumentations. For this work, the composer was awarded the Premio Abbiati of the Biennale di Venezia in 1995. In Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, premiered in 1988, Heinz Holliger combined poems by Friedrich Hölderlin with music by Robert Schumann. In the two song cycles Drei Liebeslieder (1960) and Fünf Lieder (1992-2006) for contralto voice and orchestra, he concentrated on poems by Georg Trakl. In the cycle Glühende Rätsel for contralto voice and 10 instrumentalists (1964) Holliger set verses by Nelly Sachs to music. Even poems by Christian Morgenstern were set to music by Heinz Holliger (Sechs Lieder for soprano and orchestra, composed in 1956/57, orchestrated in 2003). His orchestra song cycle Dämmerlicht (Hakumei) (2015) is based on five poems by Holliger written in the Japanese form Haiku. In 2016 Holliger arranged Trois Chansons de France and Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé by Claude Debussy for voice and orchestra.
For the stage, Holliger wrote the opera Schneewittchen which was premiered at the Zurich Opera in 1998. The composer adapted the text from the work of Robert Walser in which, in contrast to Grimm's fairytale, the shadows of the characters meet after the actual story. The ECM recording of Schneewittchen won a Grammy Award in 2002. The examination of texts by Samuel Beckett resulted in the composition of three other short stage works: Come and go (1976/77), Not I (1978-80), and What Where (1988). In March 2018 Lunea was premiered at the Zurich Opera. The opera presents the life and person of the Late Romantic poet Nikolaus Lenau and is awarded "World Premiere of the Year" in the critics' poll of the German Magazine Opernwelt.
Holliger's concert pieces too often refer to biographies or literary works: Concerto 'Hommage à Louis Soutter' for violin and orchestra (1993-95, revised 2002) portrays the life of the Swiss painter. In Siebengesang (1966/67) for oboe, orchestra, singing voices and loudspeaker, he incorporates a poem by Georg Trakl. Holliger has composed numerous chamber music works, including the early wind quintet h (1968), Romancendres for violoncello and piano (2003), Contrechant sur le nom de Baudelaire for (bass) clarinet (2008) as well as two string quartets and solo pieces for almost every instrument.
Holliger has been awarded many awards and prizes: the Frankfurt Music Award 1988, the Ernst von Siemens Music Award 1991, the Prix de Composition Musicale de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco for (S)irató 1994, to name but a few. In 2007 Holliger was the first to receive the Zurich Festival Award, in 2008 he received the Rheingau Musikpreis, in 2017 the Robert-Schumann-Preis of the City of Zwickau, and in 2019 the International Isang Yun Composition Award. He was composer-in-residence of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the International Music Festival in Lucerne. In April 2003 the Cité de la Musique in Paris dedicated a whole concert week to the composer, conductor and oboist Holliger. With projects such as the Basler Musikforum cofounded by him in 1987 and cooperations with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie and the Ensemble Modern, Holliger is particularly involved in the presentation of new music. In 2022 Holliger received the Robert Schumann-Preis für Dichtung und Musik for his lifetime achievement.
Liste d'œuvres
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Chronologie
Recordings and worldwide concerts as a soloist
Theme Composer at the Suntory Foundation for Arts' Summer Festival
Robert Schumann-Preis für Dichtung und Musik
Produits
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Quatre poèmes de Philippe Jaccottet. Lecture pour hautbois et cor anglais (aussi 2 hautbois / 2 hautbois d’amour / 2 cors anglais)Compositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition d'exécutionSéries: Oboe Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: hautbois (ou soprano) et cor anglaisNuméro du produit: OBB 55Prix à partir de14,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de14,99 €TTCEn stock -
Compositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Jeu de partiesSérie: "h"
Instrumentation: Quintette à ventNuméro du produit: AVV 100-10Prix à partir de42,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de42,99 €TTCEn stock -
Compositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: PartiturSéries: Edition Schott
"h"
Instrumentation: Quintette à ventNuméro du produit: AVV 100Prix à partir de23,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de23,99 €TTCEn stock -
10 Monodisticha von Angelus SilesiusCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition de choeurSérie: Schott Chamber Choir
Instrumentation: 4 voix (SATB) a cappella (4 solistes ou à8, à12, à16)Numéro du produit: SKR 20079Prix à partir de8,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de8,99 €TTCEn stock -
pour flûte seuleCompositeur: Heinz HolligerSéries: Il Flauto traverso
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: flûteNuméro du produit: FTR 197Prix à partir de6,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de6,99 €TTCEn stock -
Compositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition et partiesSéries: Il Flauto traverso
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: 8 (16, 24, 32, ..) piccolos et 4 tambours bâlois (avec 8 sifflets à roulette)Numéro du produit: FTR 193Prix à partir de36,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de36,99 €TTCEn stock -
Monodie für großes OrchesterCompositeur: Heinz HolligerMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: grand orchestre
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MonodieCompositeur: Heinz HolligerMedia Type: partitionEdition: Partition d'étudeSéries: Music Of Our Time
(S)irat(ó)
Instrumentation: large orchestraNuméro du produit: ED 843944,00 €TTC, hors expédition -
pour violon seulCompositeur: Heinz HolligerSérie: 4 Hommages
Instrumentation: violon seulNuméro du produit: ED 22807Prix à partir de18,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de18,99 €TTCEn stock -
für Sopran, Oboe d'amore, Celesta und HarfeCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition et partiesInstrumentation: soprano, hautbois d'amour, célesta et harpeNuméro du produit: ED 9175Prix à partir de9,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de9,99 €TTCEn stock
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after poems by the 6 to 10-year-old Mileva DemengaCompositeur: Heinz HolligerSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: soprano et piano (3 instruments ad lib.)Numéro du produit: ED 9464Prix à partir de15,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de15,99 €TTCEn stock -
Compositeur: Heinz HolligerMedia Type: PartitionInstrumentation: orgue et bande magnétiqueNuméro du produit: ED 774236,50 €TTC, hors expédition
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Vier Stücke für Oboe und EnglischhornCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition d'exécutionSérie: Oboe Library
Instrumentation: hautbois et cor anglaisNuméro du produit: OBB 60Prix à partir de10,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de10,99 €TTCEn stock -
pour soprano, flûte alto, cor anglais et violoncelle d'après des textes de Philippe Jaccottet et Heinz HolligerCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition et partiesSérie: Edition Schott
Instrumentation: soprano, flûte alto, cor anglais et violoncelleNuméro du produit: ED 22704Prix à partir de27,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de27,99 €TTCEn stock -
(a double reading for Doublereeder)Compositeur: Heinz HolligerSéries: Oboe Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: hautbois seul ou 2 hautbois (ad lib. aussi hautbois seul avec un Bordun de 2 cors ou 2 clarinettes ou 2 instruments à cordes)Numéro du produit: OBB 46Prix à partir de9,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de9,99 €TTCEn stock -
für Kammerorchester und TonbandCompositeur: Heinz HolligerMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: orchestre de chambre et bande magnétique
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Motet on a play of the same name by August StrinbergCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Partition de choeurSérie: Schott Choral Music
Instrumentation: choeur mixte SATB avec 4 solistes (SATB)Numéro du produit: C 56721Prix à partir de9,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de9,99 €TTCEn stock -
Geischter- und Älplermüsig fer d Oberwalliser SpillitCompositeur: Heinz HolligerMedia Type: Matériel en location / d'exécutionEdition: Matériel d'exécutionInstrumentation: Sprecher, kleiner Chor (ad libitum) und KammerorchesterLangue: Suisse allemand
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for violoncello soloCompositeur: Heinz HolligerEdition: Edition séparéeSéries: Cello Library
Edition Schott
Instrumentation: violoncelleNuméro du produit: CB 307Prix à partir de3,99 €TTCType de produitPrix à partir de3,99 €TTCEn stock