Martin Haselböck

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Martin Haselböck (born November 23, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian organist , conductor and composer .

Life

Haselböck, who comes from a family of musicians, passed his Matura with distinction at the Academic Gymnasium in Vienna. Even as a high school student, he studied church music , organ , recorder concert subject and composition at the Vienna University of Music . His teachers were Michael Radulescu (organ), his father Hans Haselböck (organ improvisation ), Hans Gillesberger (choir director), Anton Heiller (church composition) and Friedrich Cerha (composition). In 1974 and 1976 he passed the diploma examinations for church music and organ concert subject with unanimous distinction and the promotion prizes of the Ministry of Education . 1975/76 followed a year of study with Jean Langlais and Daniel Roth in Paris. In addition to studying music, he studied philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna .

The pedagogue

In 1977 Martin Haselböck was Professor of Organ at Luther College in Iowa . He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2003 from this school, which is important for American church music education.

From 1978 to 1986 he taught as a lecturer for basso continuo internship and organ at the Vienna University of Music . In 1986, Martin Haselböck was appointed to a professorship (C4) at the Lübeck University of Music , where he headed the Institute for Church Music there for several years, and among his students are numerous award winners of major international competitions, organists from important cathedrals and churches, and lecturers at important institutions in Europe and overseas.

He was jointly responsible as the organizer of numerous projects, such as the Buxtehude Congress 1987, the Krenek Festival 1989, the Distler Festival 1998 and the Schnitger Festival 2001. In 2003 Martin Haselböck was appointed professor for organ at the Vienna University of Music. Haselböck worked as a visiting professor at numerous other universities, such as the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, Yale University , the Amsterdam Conservatory , the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the University of Southern California , Los Angeles.

He was a juror at the major organ competitions in Haarlem, Chartres, Dallas, Calgary, Pretoria, Lahti, Paris, Odense, Nuremberg, St. Albans, etc. a., as editor he edited more than seventy volumes of organ music, including the entire organ works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Franz Liszt .

The composer and editor

As a composer, Martin Haselböck was a student of Erich Romanovsky , Anton Heiller and Friedrich Cerha . Several larger works combine language and sound. In this area there were special suggestions through the collaboration with Ernst Jandl and Friederike Mayröcker

Selection of works:

  • Manelom for 3 sopranos and 17 instruments (1976) Universal Edition
  • Daily tide for speakers and chamber orchestra (F. Mayröcker) (1993) Doblinger
  • Jandl Requiem for speaker and large string orchestra (F. Mayröcker) (2000) Universal Edition
  • "Weltgebräuche" literary-musical action by Ernst Jandl and Martin Haselböck (1982)
  • Six masses, including “Konradmesse” for three solos (choir ad lib.), Percussion and organ (1996) Universal Edition, numerous Proprien and smaller church works
  • Several works for organ, organ singing and organ with instruments.

From 1978 to 2000 Martin Haselböck was the editor of the Universal Orgel Edition. With now 85 titles, the series he oversees together with Thomas Daniel Schlee has become one of the most important newer edition series of printed organ music. Haselböck's contributions include the first editions of all organ works by Franz Liszt and WA Mozart as well as the extensive anthology “Organ Music of the Vienna Court Organists”. A book "Franz Liszt and the Organ" was published in 1998.

The organist

A worldwide concert activity as an organist leads Martin Haselböck regularly to the most important music festivals. Since 1970 he has given concerts and solo evenings all over the world: in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, the USA, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Japan, Asia, New Zealand and Australia. As a soloist he performed under Claudio Abbado , Lorin Maazel , Wolfgang Sawallisch and Horst Stein a . a. on. In December 1993, he inaugurated the large two concerts Klais - Organ in the Athens Concert Hall one.

Over sixty recordings document his broad repertoire, which ranges from Bach to Liszt to modern times. His recordings have received several awards, including the German Record Prize , the Diapason d'or and the Hungarian Liszt Prize. Numerous important masters of our time (Alfred Schnittke, Cristobal Halffter, Gilbert Amy and others) have written for Martin Haselböck. Even Ernst Krenek dedicated his two organ concerts. Liszt's organ works on Ladegast organs are important recent recordings.

As a consultant, he was involved in the planning of important new organs and the restoration of important monument organs, for example in the Wiener Musikverein, the Cathedral of Mexico City, and the Disney Hall Los les.

The conductor

In his function as the Viennese court organist , dealing with the large repertoire of classical church music marked the beginning of his intensive work as a conductor. This led to the establishment of the Ensemble Orchester Wiener Akademie in 1985 .

Martin Haselböck was also a guest conductor of numerous orchestras, such as the Vienna Symphony Orchestra , the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin , the Dresden Philharmonie , the Philadelphia Orchestra , the Los les Philharmonic Orchestra , the Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras , the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi Milano , the national philharmonics of Spain, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Slovakia and Slovenia, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Flanders, with a focus of his work on the lively communication of baroque and classical works. With the Hamburger Symphoniker he leads an annual cycle with works of the Viennese classical music in the Hamburger Musikhalle. Martin Haselböck has been Music Director of the Musica lica Baroque Orchestra in Los les since 2004. With this ensemble he designed several cycles in Los Angeles. The highlight of the previous work with his two ensembles was a large-scale tour with Bach's St. Matthew Passion with 13 concerts in Mexico, the USA, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany and Austria.

Since his debut at the Göttingen Handel Festival, Haselböck has also been successful as an opera conductor. He was able to perform Mozart's great operas in new productions in the Theater im Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen for the first time in Germany with historical instruments . His "Don Giovanni" was awarded the Mozart Prize of the City of Prague in 1991. Since 2000 Haselböck has directed fourteen new productions at festivals in Salzburg, Schwetzingen, Vienna and at the opera houses in Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne and Halle. Since 2007 he has been director of the Reinsberg Festival, where he has appeared with productions by Freischütz and Fidelio.

Awards (excerpt)

Martin Haselböck received several awards, such as the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art , the Prague Mozart Prize in 1991, the Hungarian Liszt Prize and in 2010 the Great Decoration of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria .

Sound carrier

  • Martin Haselböck - Early Recordings , Volume 1 - Adelaide Festival Center Australia 1979.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Flotzinger: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon online OEML . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ( musiklexikon.ac.at ).
  2. ↑ About Us - Vienna Academy Orchestra. In: wienerakademie.at. Retrieved November 30, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Ursula Magnes: Martin Haselböck. In: CD of the week. Radio Klassik Stephansdom. On Radioklassik.at, accessed on August 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Martin Haselböck: Early Recording, vol. 1 Adelaide Festival Theater - Disque classicrecords, March 30, 1979, live. In: Alain Cartayrade: Guide de la Musique d'Orgue, recherche discographique. From France-Orgue.fr (French), accessed on August 17, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Haselböck, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna