Editing Heinz Holliger

{{short description|Swiss composer, oboist, and conductor (born 1939)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name        = Heinz Holliger
| image       = Heinzholliger.jpg
| birth_date  = {{birth-date and age|21 May 1939}}
| birth_place = [[Langenthal]], Switzerland
| education   = Conservatory of Bern
| occupation  = Composer, oboist, and conductor
}}
'''Heinz Robert Holliger''' (born 21 May 1939) is a Swiss composer, virtuoso [[oboe|oboist]],{{sfn|Burgess|2001|loc="(ii) Repertory and performers."}} and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation.{{sfn|Burgess|2001|loc="(ii) Repertory and performers."}} His repertoire includes [[Baroque music|Baroque]] and [[Classical period (music)|Classical]] pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known pieces of [[Romantic music]], as well as his own compositions.{{sfn|Burgess|2001|loc="(ii) Repertory and performers."}} He often performed [[contemporary classical music|contemporary]] works with his wife, the harpist [[Ursula Holliger]]. Many composers have written works for him, including [[Olivier Messiaen|Messiaen]], [[Luciano Berio|Berio]], [[Elliott Carter|Carter]], [[Hans Werner Henze|Henze]], [[Ernst Krenek|Krenek]], [[Witold Lutosławski|Lutosławski]], [[Frank Martin (composer)|Martin]], [[Krzysztof Penderecki|Penderecki]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen]] and [[Isang Yun|Yun]]. A noted composer himself, Hollinger has written works such as the opera ''[[Schneewittchen (opera)|Schneewittchen]]'' (1998).

==Biography==
Holliger was born in [[Langenthal]], Switzerland.<ref name="BBC" /> An oboist since age eleven,<ref name="Davis" /> he studied at the [[Music school|conservatory]] of Bern before taking first prize in oboe at the [[Geneva International Music Competition]] in 1959.<ref name="Gramophone" /> 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 (composer)|Frank Martin]], [[Krzysztof Penderecki]], [[Henri Pousseur]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Sándor Veress]] and [[Isang Yun]].{{sfn|Kunkel|Stenzl|2003}}

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]], {{lang|fr|née}} Hänggi (1937–2014).<ref>{{cite news |last=Apone |first=Carl |date=16 March 1989 |title=Holliger to debut Soviet oboe work |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517100/heinz-holliger-apone/ |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=27 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=31 May 2020 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801213445/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517100/heinz-holliger-apone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Music==

Having studied composition with [[Sándor Veress]] and [[Pierre Boulez]],{{sfn|Kunkel|Stenzl|2003}} 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 [[Rheingau Musik Festival#Portraits of living composers|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 [[Neue Musik|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 [[E♭ (musical note)|eS]], [[A (musical note)|A]], [[C (musical note)|C]], [[B (musical note)|H]], [[E (musical note)|E]], and [[D (musical note)|Re]], or "Sacher" spelled with [[Musical note#History of note names|German words for the pitch classes]].) Holliger contributed a [[chaconne]].{{efn|The other contributions were [[Conrad Beck]]'s Drei Epigramme, Luciano Berio's ''Les mots sont allés ...'', Pierre Boulez's ''[[Messagesquisse]]'', [[Benjamin Britten]]'s Tema 'Sacher', [[Henri Dutilleux]]'s 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, [[Wolfgang Fortner]]'s Thema und Variationen, [[Alberto Ginastera]]'s Puneña No. 2, [[Cristobal Halffter]]'s Variation über das Thema eSACHERe, [[Hans Werner Henze]]'s Cappriccio, [[Klaus Huber]]'s ''Transpositio ad infinitum'', and [[Witold Lutosławski]]'s Sacher-Variation.}} 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brikcius.com/Projects.uk.eSACHERe.html |title=eSACHERe |access-date=10 October 2011 |archive-date=10 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610072751/http://www.brikcius.com/Projects.uk.eSACHERe.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Awards==
* 1987: [[Léonie Sonning Music Prize]]<ref name="y017">{{cite web | title=Main prize recipients | website=Léonie Sonnings Musikpris | date=21 March 2021 | url=https://www.sonningmusik.dk/main-prize-recipients/?lang=en | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=9 January 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109160943/https://www.sonningmusik.dk/main-prize-recipients/?lang=en | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1991: [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]]<ref name="u111">{{cite web | title=HauptpreisträgerInnen Archiv | website=Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung | url=https://www.old.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/preise/preise/archiv/hauptpreistraegerinnen.html | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=21 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421145638/https://www.old.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/preise/preise/archiv/hauptpreistraegerinnen.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 1994: [[Prince_Pierre_Foundation#Music_Composition_Prize|The Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Prize]] for ''(S)irató''<ref name="v484">{{cite web | last=Pierre | first=Fondation Prince | title=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco | website=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco | url=https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/1994 | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812101500/https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/1994 | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2007: Zürich Festival Prize<ref>[https://archive.today/20120629122842/http://www.schott-music.com/news/archiv/show,881.html "Zurich Festival Prize for Heinz Holliger"], [[Schott Music]]</ref>
* 2008: [[Rheingau Musik Preis]]<ref name="o247">{{cite web | title=Rheingau Musik Preis | website=Rheingau Musik Festival | url=https://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/festival/preise-und-auszeichnungen/rheingau-musik-preis | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024}}</ref>
* 2016: Honorary member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name="c013">{{cite web | title=Heinz Robert Holliger | website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences | date=1 July 2024 | url=https://www.amacad.org/person/heinz-robert-holliger | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=29 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429194545/https://www.amacad.org/person/heinz-robert-holliger | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2017: [[Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau]]<ref name="d075">{{cite web | title=Preisträger | website=Willkommen in der Robert-Schumann-Stadt Zwickau! | url=https://www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/02/02/preistraeger.php | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=10 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510202827/https://www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/02/02/preistraeger.php | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2018: [[Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts]]<ref name="j788">{{cite web | title=Holliger | website=ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE | url=http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/heinz-holliger | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102245/http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/heinz-holliger | url-status=live }}</ref>
* 2022: [[Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music]]<ref name="Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2021">{{cite web | title=Komponist Heinz Holliger erhält Schumann-Preis | website=[[Deutschlandfunk Kultur]] | date=26 April 2021 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/komponist-heinz-holliger-erhaelt-schumann-preis-102.html | language=de | access-date=27 April 2022 | archive-date=26 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426224456/https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/komponist-heinz-holliger-erhaelt-schumann-preis-102.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Selected works==
Source:<ref name="k210">{{cite web | title=Heinz Holliger | website=Schott Music | date=21 May 1939 | url=https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/heinz-holliger#person_worklist | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102437/https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/heinz-holliger#person_worklist | url-status=live }}</ref>

* ''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#Adaptations|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 (opera)|Schneewittchen]]'' (1998), opera based on a text by [[Robert Walser (writer)|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)<ref name="i641">{{cite web | title=Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonatas | website=ECM Records | date=17 April 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/jan-dismas-zelenka-trio-sonatas-heinz-holliger-maurice-bourgue-thomas-zehetmair-kalus-thunemann-klaus-stoll-jonathan-rubin-christiane-jaccottet/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102637/https://ecmrecords.com/product/jan-dismas-zelenka-trio-sonatas-heinz-holliger-maurice-bourgue-thomas-zehetmair-kalus-thunemann-klaus-stoll-jonathan-rubin-christiane-jaccottet/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Sándor Veress: Passacaglia / Songs / Musica Concertante'' (ECM, 2000)<ref name="y920">{{cite web | title=Sándor Veress: Passacaglia Concertante / Songs Of The Seasons / Musica Concertante | website=ECM Records | date=12 March 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/sandor-veress-passacaglia-concertante-songs-of-the-seasons-musica-concertante-heinz-holliger-camerata-bern-london-voices/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102729/https://ecmrecords.com/product/sandor-veress-passacaglia-concertante-songs-of-the-seasons-musica-concertante-heinz-holliger-camerata-bern-london-voices/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Beiseit / Alb-Chehr'' (ECM, 2000)<ref name="t866">{{cite web | title=Heinz Holliger: Beiseit / Alb-Chehr | website=ECM Records | date=29 May 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/heinz-holliger-beiseit-alb-chehr-david-james-elmar-schmid-teodoro-anzellotti-johannes-nied-heinz-holliger-franziskus-abgottspon-oberwalliser-spillit/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102825/https://ecmrecords.com/product/heinz-holliger-beiseit-alb-chehr-david-james-elmar-schmid-teodoro-anzellotti-johannes-nied-heinz-holliger-franziskus-abgottspon-oberwalliser-spillit/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
* ''Lauds and Lamentations'' (ECM, 2003)<ref name="c931">{{cite web | title=Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun | website=ECM Records | date=3 June 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/lauds-and-lamentations-music-of-elliott-carter-and-isang-yun-heinz-holliger-thomas-zehetmair-ruth-killius-thomas-demenga/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102935/https://ecmrecords.com/product/lauds-and-lamentations-music-of-elliott-carter-and-isang-yun-heinz-holliger-thomas-zehetmair-ruth-killius-thomas-demenga/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==
===Notes===
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===Citations===
{{reflist
| refs =

<ref name="Gramophone">{{Cite journal
| last = Blyth
| first = Alan
| author-link = Alan Blyth
| url = https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/an-interview-with-heinz-holliger
| title = An interview with Heinz Holliger
| journal = [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]]
| date = November 1972
| access-date = 30 May 2018
| archive-date = 24 October 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181024090909/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/an-interview-with-heinz-holliger
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="Davis">{{cite news
| last = Davis
| first = Peter G.
| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/arts/heinz-holliger-refutes-thesis-that-the-oboe-is-an-ill-wind.html
| title = Heinz Holliger Refutes Thesis That the Oboe Is an Ill Wind
| work = [[The New York Times]]
| year = 1981
| access-date = 30 May 2018
| archive-date = 26 February 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180226181609/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/arts/heinz-holliger-refutes-thesis-that-the-oboe-is-an-ill-wind.html
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

<ref name="BBC">{{cite web
| url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/cd5a15f3-8937-49da-9719-d3790136802c
| title = Heinz Holliger
| publisher = [[BBC]]
| access-date = 30 May 2018
| archive-date = 4 June 2018
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180604162839/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/cd5a15f3-8937-49da-9719-d3790136802c
| url-status = live
}}</ref>

}}

===Bibliography===
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Burgess |first=Geoffrey |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Oboe |section=II. The European treble oboe |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40450 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040450 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Kunkel |first1=Michael |last2=Stenzl |first2=Jürg |author-link2=Jürg Stenzl |year=2003 |orig-year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Holliger, Heinz |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.13230 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013230 |access-date=9 August 2021 |archive-date=9 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809173858/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013230 |url-status=live }} {{Grove Music subscription}}
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==Further reading==
* {{cite news |last=Buell |first=Richard |date=27 March 1984 |title=Oboist Holliger at Musica Viva |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52516671/heinz-holliger-buell/ |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=Boston |page=26 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=31 May 2020}}
* {{cite news |last=Reich |first=Howard |date=1 August 1986 |title=Heinz Holliger breathes a new sound into two oboe concertos |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52516058/heinz-holliger-reich/ |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |location=Chicago |page=25 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=31 May 2020}}

==External links==
* [https://en.schott-music.com/shop/autoren/heinz-holliger Heinz Holliger] [[Schott Music]]
* [https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists/1435046184/heinz-holliger Heinz Holliger] [[ECM Records]]
* {{discogs artist}}
* {{cite web
 |url=http://finanzblog.kaywa.com/files/Bachelorarbeit.pdf
 |title=Heinz Holliger – Leben und Werk
 |access-date=22 May 2008
|author=Katharina Jing An Gebauer
 |date=March 2008
 |format=PDF (18MB)
 |work=BA (Composition) Thesis
 |language=de
 |url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528100243/http://finanzblog.kaywa.com/files/Bachelorarbeit.pdf
 |archive-date=28 May 2008
}}
* [http://classicalmusicianstoza.blogspot.ca/2014/06/heinz-holliger-swiss-oboist.html Heinz Holliger on 1969 tour of Southern Africa], organised by Hans Adler
* [http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/en/ressources/compositeurs/biographies/holliger-heinz-1939 Holliger Heinz (1939)] Cdmc website
* Sound recordings of works of the composer from the archives of [[Swiss Broadcasting Corporation|SRG SSR]] on [https://neo.mx3.ch/heinzholliger Neo.Mx3]

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