Death of the composer Hans Wüthrich
Swiss Radio SRF 2 Kultur has announced the death of composer Hans Wüthrich. Born in the Bernese Oberland, he was a student of Sandor Veress and Klaus Huber and was considered a pioneer of experimental music theater. He was 82 years old.
Wüthrich was born in Aeschi (Canton of Bern) and studied at the Bern Conservatory with Sava Savoff (piano) and Sandor Veress (theory). From 1968 to 1972, he also received composition lessons from Klaus Huber. In 1974 he founded the Ensemble mixt media basel, which, according to the entry in the Musinfo directory, is particularly dedicated to works in the intermediate area of music and theater. From 1985 to 2002, Wüthrich was a lecturer in music theory at the Winterthur-Zurich University of Music and since 2009 a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Wüthrich has won numerous prizes, including the Composition Prize at the Boswil International Composition Competition several times, the Grand Prix Paul Gilson de la Communauté radiophonique des programmes de la langue francaise, the Special Prize for Music of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, and he was one of the nominees for the 2016 Swiss Music Prize.
