Guitar concert revived
With her "Concertino Hans Haug" project, Marisa Minder wants to give a little-known work a place in concert life.
The conductor and composer Hans Haug, born in Basel in 1900 (died in Lausanne in 1967), conducted many ensembles in Switzerland and abroad, including the Beromünster Radio Orchestra from 1938 to 1943. In the 1930s, he wrote the operas Don Juan in a foreign land and Madrisa. The soldiers' folk game became very popular during the Second World War Gilberte de Courgenay. According to MGG the focus of his work was on stage works of various kinds. Among his instrumental works, concerts stood out in particular, including the Concertino for guitar and small orchestra. It was awarded the first prize for composition by Andrés Segovia at the Academia Chigana in Siena in 1951.
Marisa Minder, a guitarist who grew up in Windisch and now lives in Basel, has been studying Hans Haug's works for guitar for many years. With her project "Concertino Hans Haug", she aims to bring one of Haug's best, yet least known compositions to concert halls. After its premiere in 1970, the work disappeared from the scene and no recordings of it have been made to date. After four performances, the project is to be concluded with a CD production.
The last concert will take place on February 28 at the Ackermannshof in Basel. Alexander Zemtsov conducts the project orchestra, with Dmitry Smirnov as concertmaster.
