Klaus Huber honored for his life's work
On April 25, the composer and composition teacher Klaus Huber was honored for his life's work with this year's Gema German Music Authors' Prize.
As announced by the Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (Gema), the expert jury awards the Music Authors' Prize The composer Klaus Huber, born in 1924, was and is driven in his works by a belief in the possibility of a different, better world. His deeply humanistic compositions incorporate European traditions as well as elements of non-European music, resulting in an independent gestural and communicative musical language that gains its resistant dimension from constructive elaboration and shattering expressiveness.
Works such as The soul must dismount from the mount, Tenebrae and Black earth not only used tones outside the Western interval system, but also stand for musical curiosity and transcendence in equal measure, Gema continues.
Klaus Huber has also influenced important contemporary composers as part of his teaching activities, including at the Freiburg University of Music: Younghi Pagh-Paan, Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa and Wolfgang Rihm were among his students.
