Josef Häusler

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Josef Häusler (born June 15, 1926 in Freiburg , † February 20, 2010 there ) was a German music journalist and radio editor .

Life

After graduating as a music teacher at the Freiburg University of Music , Häusler worked as a pianist and private music teacher, then as a freelance music critic for the Badisches Tagblatt and other daily newspapers as well as for the specialist press.

In 1959 he came to what was then Südwestfunk (SWF, today SWR) as a dramaturge and editor , where he was the third post-war festival director to take on the artistic and organizational management of the Donaueschinger Musiktage from Otto Tomek and to shape the program between 1975 and 1991. Gerhard R. Koch characterizes: “But the father figure Strobel also continued to play a role: not least in the vicinity of France (Messiaen, Boulez, Xenakis), but also Stockhausen and Kagel. Some taboos were also retained: Henze, for example; while Häusler succeeded in getting Luigi Nono back to Donaueschingen. Häusler approached American music with reservations, and the socialist states, with the exception of Poland, were hardly represented, as was the music of other continents. It was an 'occidental' avant-garde. "

From Häusler's writings, the two books on the history of music of the 20th century take a high rank, as they not only offer a chronicle and portraits of the most influential composers, but have also clarified stylistic and theoretical concepts through the sharply defined characterizations. There were also articles in the magazines Melos, Musica and the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik . His translations of source texts from French - primarily by Pierre Boulez - have contributed greatly to the knowledge and appreciation of French thought and aesthetics.

Fonts

chronologically

Books

  • Music in the 20th Century - From Schönberg to Penderecki , Bremen: Schünemann 1969, 1972, 442 pp.
  • Mirror of New Music: Donaueschingen. Chronicle - tendencies - factory reviews , Kassel: Bärenreiter 1996, 494 pp.

Translations

  • Pierre Boulez: Music Thinking Today 1 = Darmstadt Contributions to New Music Vol. 5, Mainz Schott 1963, 123 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez: Werkstatt -tex , Frankfurt: Ullstein / Propylänen 1972, 286 pp.
  • Claude Debussy : Monsieur Croche - Complete Writings and Interviews on Music , Stuttgart: Reclam 1974, 1982, 2010, 304 pp.
  • Pierre Schaeffer : Musique Concrète - from the beginnings in Paris around 1948 to electro-acoustic music today , Stuttgart: Klett 1974, 135 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez: Will and Chance - Conversations with Célestin Deliège , Stuttgart: Belser 1977, 140 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez: Clues. Essays , Stuttgart: Belser 1975, paperback: Bärenreiter / dtv 1979, 415 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez: Music Thinking Today 2 = Darmstadt Contributions to New Music Vol. 6, Mainz Schott 1985, 81 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez: Guidelines - Thoughts of a Composer , Kassel / Stuttgart: Bärenreiter / Metzler 2000, 450 pp.

Articles / interviews

  • If you write a string quartet today - conversation with György Ligeti , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1970, H. 7/8, pp. 378–381
  • Interview with György Ligeti , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1970, no. 12, pp. 496–507
  • Fruit of synthesis - the composer Pierre Boulez , in: Musica , Jg. 24, 1970, no. 3, pp. 239–241
  • Unity in diversity - sketch about Lutosławski , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 1973, no. 1, pp. 23–26
  • Ethos of responsibility - on the death of the conductor Ernest Bour , in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik , 2001, no. 5, pp. 56–57
  • Laudation for Violeta Dinescu , in: Violeta Dinescu , ed. by Eva-Maria Houben, Saarbrücken 2004, pp. 14-18.

Editing

  • Pierre Boulez - A Festschrift for the 60th Birthday , Vienna: Universal Edition 1985, 245 pp.
  • Pierre Boulez in Salzburg - Program book of the Salzburg Festival 1992 , Zurich: Eidolon 1992, 167 pp.
  • Focus Nono : Program book Zeitfluss 93 [Salzburg Festival] , Salzburg: Residenz-Verlag 1993, 160 pp.
  • Nicolaus A. Huber : Durchleuchtungen - Texts on music 1964-1999 , Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel 2000, 12 + 426 pp.
  • Helmut Lachenmann : Music as Existential Experience - Writings 1966-1995 , Wiesbaden: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1st ed. 1996, 2nd ed. updated 2004, 26 + 460 p.

Remarks

  1. ^ Gerhard R. Koch: Im Fruchtland der Musik - To the death of the publicist Josef Häusler , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 24, 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Häusler, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music journalist and radio editor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau
DATE OF DEATH February 20, 2010
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau