Paul Huber (composer)

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Paul Huber (born February 17, 1918 in Kirchberg , Switzerland ; † February 25, 2001 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss composer .

Life

Paul Huber, who grew up as the son of a farming family in Kirchberg in the old town of Toggenburg, lost his father and mother at the age of ten and grew up with the Stolz foster family in Kirchberg SG. His two younger siblings Emil and Annemarie were accepted into the Stadelmann family in St. Gallen. From 1940 to 1947 he studied music at the Conservatory in Zurich counterpoint with Willy Burkhard , piano with Rudolf Wittelsbach , organ with Luigi Favani and school music with Ernst Hörler . In 1947 and 1948 he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris . In 1943 Huber found a job as an organist at the St. Nikolaus town church in Wil SG . He held this office until 1949. Finally, in 1951, he was appointed lecturer in charge of singing and piano at the Cantonal School in St. Gallen , where he remained until 1983. There he taught many years of high school students and gained fame as a music and singing teacher. In 1979 the University of Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology for his numerous sacred and liturgical works.

His first compositional successes also fell in the post-war period. For his mass in honor of St. Gall , he was awarded the 3rd prize by the St. Gall Diocesan Association of Cecilia. The concert overture for wind orchestra was premiered at the St. Gallen Cantonal Music Festival in Altstätten . The initiators of the Federal Music Festival in Sankt Gallen commissioned him to compose the Frau Musika festival . That was the initial spark for his acquaintance beyond the canton and beyond the Swiss national borders. In 1982 the city of St. Gallen awarded him its four-year cultural prize.

In terms of style, Paul Huber was committed to a tradition which, in terms of artistic attitude, points back to Anton Bruckner . The oeuvre includes numerous songs for school or children's choirs, women, men and mixed choirs. He composed numerous motets , cantatas, oratorios, festival music, a chamber opera, a singspiel, symphonies and chamber music. His compositions for wind orchestra also became famous.

Works

Paul Huber's catalog raisonné includes well over 400 compositions in all genres. Around a quarter of them are sacred and liturgical works. Another focus is on original compositions for wind music, as well as works for orchestra and large-scale symphonies.

Works for orchestra

  • 1961 Symphony: De Nostrae aetatis angoribus
  • 1963 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 1
  • 1974 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2
  • 1982 concert for 4 timpani and orchestra
  • 1993 concert for dulcimer and string orchestra
  • 1993 concert for organ and orchestra
  • 1997 concert for cello and orchestra

Masses and sacred music

  • Small mass op.7, in C major , 1944, in honor of St. Notker of the stalker
  • Great Mass in C minor
  • The prodigal son - oratorio -
  • Requiem, op.32 (1956)
  • Hymn Corpus Christi Mysticum
  • Mass of high love (commissioned composition for the 100th anniversary of the St. Urs Cathedral Choir, Solothurn 1973)
  • Missa brevis in C
  • Miserere mei
  • Magnificat
  • Te Deum
  • The 100th Psalm (1982)
  • Confidence , Cantata (1993)

Stage works

  • 1948 Der Sturm - scenic music for Shakespeare's 'Sturm'
  • 1948 Frau Musika - Festival
  • 1953 The citizens of Schilda
  • 1953 St. Gallen national game
  • 1954 Our bear in the Bund
  • 1956/57 The shop window - chamber opera
  • 1958 Game of Thanks
  • 1959 Gallus pugnans - ballet music
  • 1962 Die Brücke - Singspiel
  • 1968 Ragaz fountain game
  • 1971 Handsome
  • 1987 First life - school singing game
  • 1989 Goldacher Picture Chronicle

Works for wind orchestra

  • 1948 Helveticus Patriotic Overture
  • 1948 Romantic concert overture
  • 1955 Capriccio
  • 1956 Prelude in modo classico
  • 1956 Suite in Eb
  • 1957 Serenade in four movements
  • 1959 Intrade and Fugue
  • 1959 legend
  • 1960 anthem
  • 1960 Notturno
  • 1960 Pastoral Overture
  • 1960 Rondo
  • 1960 Sarabande (old style)
  • 1963 meditation
  • 1963 psalm
  • 1964 Introduction and chorale
  • 1966 The Demon Symphonic Study using the Dies irae
  • 1967 public holiday
  • 1967 celebratory chorale
  • 1968 ballad
  • 1969 The Happy Musician - Suite for wind orchestra -
  • 1969 fair, small festival overture
  • 1970 Arlecchino Capriccio for wind orchestra
  • 1970 Fantasy in C
  • 1970 Jubilee hymn
  • 1971 call
  • 1972 Burtolf symphonic music for wind orchestra
  • 1972 Introit
  • 1973 Fantasia Eroica
  • 1973 Celebratory intonation
  • 1974 Festive wind choir
  • 1974 Scherzo Capriccioso
  • 1976 Hymn "Victimae paschali laudes"
  • 1977 Fantasy about an Appenzell folk tune
  • 1978 Chorale, Variations and Fugue
  • 1979 Sinfonietta "Thurgovia"
  • 1979 Symphonic Music for Brass Band
  • 1981 creation for choir and wind orchestra
  • 1982 Canto Solenne
  • 1982 Small festival music
  • 1984 professional reputation
  • 1985 Evocazione
  • 1987 kaleidoscope
  • 1989 Gaudeamus, five student scenes
  • Wind music number 1, 2 and 3
  • 1964 Canzone festiva
  • Caprice for brass band
  • Prompt
  • interlude
  • Pilatus Symphonic music for wind orchestra
  • Postlude on a Gregorian motif
  • prolog

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