Daniel Glaus

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Daniel Glaus (born July 16, 1957 in Bern ) is a Swiss organist and composer. He is currently professor at the Zurich University of Music and Theater , the Bern University of the Arts and organist at the Bern Minster.

Life

Glaus studied music theory ( Theo Hirsbrunner ), composition ( Klaus Huber , Brian Ferneyhough ), organ (Heinrich Gurtner, Gaston Litaize , Daniel Roth , Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Harald Vogel , Gerd Zacher ) and conducting ( Erich Schmid ) in Bern , Freiburg and Paris . So far he has worked as a composer and church musician ( Stadtkirche Biel , Berner Münster ) and is a professor at the Zurich University of the Arts for composition and instrumentation and at the Bern University of the Arts for organ and composition. Glaus also gives international appearances as an organist and is involved in organ building. As part of his research project Innov-Organ-um, he and his team developed a wind-dynamic organ in which the dynamics, timbre and pitch can be influenced by mere key control. Co-initiator of the 4th International Congress for Church Music Ittingen 1997 as a continuation of the three church music congresses in Bern in 1952, 1962 and 1972.

Glaus was shaped by encounters with composers such as Pierre Boulez , Gérard Grisey , Heinz Holliger , György Ligeti , Tristan Murail , Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis ; outside the field of composition are also Augustine von Hippo , Massimo Cacciari , Heraklit , Paul Wilhelm von Keppler , Meister Eckhart , Maimonides , Plato , Rainer Maria Rilke , Emanuel Swedenborg , the Zohar and natural phenomena in general of importance.

His works are performed by renowned musicians and orchestras (The Hilliard Ensemble, Christoph Poppen , Thomas Zehetmair , Fabrice Bollon , Mario Venzago , Christian Arming , Munich Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, The New Japan Philharmonic , sinfonietta basel, Bern Symphony Orchestra, ...) at international Festivales (Dresden Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, June Festival Weeks Zurich, Kassel Music Days, Biennale Bern, Cultural Summer Altenberg, ...).

plant

  • Organ pieces ( ranging in size and duration from a few minutes to more complex 25-minute church (room) music )
  • Vocal music (five oratorios Hüllen des Abgrunds (1986/87) and Sunt lacrimae rerum (1988/89), composition for Meister Eckhart (1994/95), Sola quae cantat audit et cui cantatur (2008/09), From the four ends of the Welten (2010/11) several cantatas , motets , songs for solo voice or with accompaniment)
  • Chamber music (three string quartets with the respective names "No. 1-3", solo pieces, duos, trios, fugue for string quartet and others, cycles as in hora mortis, nine attempts on the Gregorian Missa pro defunctis for piano trio (1987-93))
  • Orchestral works Traum (1978/79) for wind instruments and strings, Florestan and Eusebius for two orchestras (1981), Meteorsteine (with saxophone, 1987), Sephiroth symphonies No. 1–4 (1999–2004)
  • De Angelis cycle (in memoriam Luigi Nono, 1990–1993):
    • De Angelis I: organ
    • De Angelis II: choir
    • De Angelis II: Duo for flute and organ with mechanical stop action
    • De Angelis IV: motets and chants for Good Friday
    • De Angelis V: 2 organs, improvising clarinetists and 3 instrumental ensembles
  • two chamber operas Dispersed Paths (with 4-channel tape, 1981–1983) and The Bright Nights (with accordion, 1987–1997)

Honors

  • 1988 Paris scholarship from the Canton of Bern
  • 1992 working year for the city of Zurich
  • 2006 him the Catholic and Protestant Theological Faculty of the awarded University of Bern , the honorary doctorate .
  • 2009 Music Prize of the Canton of Bern

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personal data
SURNAME Glaus, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss organist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern