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Georg Friedrich Haas
12+ albums
contemporary classicalSpectralismexperimentalaustrianspectral
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Georg Friedrich Haas was born in 1953 in Graz, a city in the east of Austria. His childhood was spent in the mountainous province of Vorarlberg, on the Swiss border. The landscape and the atmosphere of the place have left a lasting impression on his personality. The atmosphere was marked not so much by natural beauty in the accepted sense of the word. Rather, Haas experienced the mountains as a menace; he felt closed in by the narrow valley where the sun rarely penetrated. Nature for him represented a dark force. The composer adds: “Just as important for me was the experience of being an outsider: unlike my younger siblings, I never learned to speak the local alemannic dialect. Also, I was a protestant in a predominantly Catholic society.” To study music, Haas returned to his native city where his professors were Gösta Neuwirth and Ivan Eröd. Later, he continued his studies in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha. Haas: “for all our apparent differences (and probably mutual personal disappointments) I learned from Eröd – apart from many things about the craft of composition – one principle above all else: that the measure of everything is man, that is, the possibilities inherent in human perception”. Haas holds Friedrich Cerha in high esteem, something that the older composer (born in 1926) returns in full measure. When the occasion arises, they demonstrate their mutual appreciation unstintingly. In 2007, it was Cerha, the doyen of Austrian composers, who proposed his former pupi
top songs
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In Vain
1,6342Nacht-Schatten
8983In Nomine (2001) for bass flute, english horn, clarinet, piano, vibraphone, violin, viola and Violoncello
8214String Quartet No. 2
5475In Vain (2000) For 24 Instruments
5276Limited approximations: III. Limited approximations
3937…und… (first version)
3828String Quartet no. 1
2729Limited approximations: I. Limited approximations
26010Wer, wenn ich schriee, horte mich…
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