Universal Edition - Georg Friedrich Haas

Georg Friedrich Haas
*16.08.1953

Future Performances

String Quartet No. 4
11.07.2013, Assisi (I)
tria ex uno
21.08.2013, San Sebastian (E)
String Quartet No. 5
23.08.2013, Luzern (CH)
limited approximations
10.09.2013, Luzern (CH)
de terrae fine
17.09.2013, Berlin (D)

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  • Georg Friedrich Haas: nocturno – HAIKU/ATTHIS
    Georg Friedrich Haas: nocturno – HAIKU/ATTHIS
    As part of the series BONN CHANCE!, Georg Friedrich Haas has conceived a scenic production in which [...]
  • Klangspuren
    Klangspuren: opening concert with Haas and Staud
    Klangspuren: opening concert with Haas and Staud
    On 13 September the Klangspuren opening concert in Schwaz features works of two UE composers, Georg [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas (c) Universal Edition/Eric Marinitsch
    Salzburg Music Award for Georg Friedrich Haas
    Salzburg Music Award for Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas is the winner of the 2013 Salzburg Music Prize – International Composition Pr [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas (c) Universal Edition
    Haas: New work for orchestra
    Haas: New work for orchestra
    The new orchestral work “… e finisci già?” by Georg Friedrich Haas will receive its world pre [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas (c) Universal Edition
    Haas: New work for ensemble
    Haas: New work for ensemble
    At this year’s musica viva festival in Munich (15 June), Georg Friedrich Haas’ new work, “Ich [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Haas: New a cappella work
    Haas: New a cappella work
    On 17 March the Bavarian Radio Chorus (cond. Rupert Huber) will give the world première of a new wo [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas (c) Universal Edition
    Haas: New work for voices
    Haas: New work for voices
    Mlake / Laaken is the third part of Georg Friedrich Haas’ work SCHWEIGEN (Silence), written for th [...]
  • Salzburger Festspiele
    Salzburg Festival 2011
    Salzburg Festival 2011
    Gustav Mahler, whose anniversaries have been the centre of attention all this year, is also the high [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Haas’ opera Nacht in Lucerne
    Haas’ opera Nacht in Lucerne
    Jürg Henneberger conducts Haas' chamber opera Nacht on 16 Sep with the Ensemble DIAGONAL in Lucerne [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas: New String Quartet
    Georg Friedrich Haas: New String Quartet
    Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 7 will be given its world première by the Arditti Quartet [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Haas: New work for chamber orchestra
    Haas: New work for chamber orchestra
    On 4 June Georg Friedrich Haas’ new work for chamber orchestra "chants oubliés" will be given its [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Haas: New String Quartet
    Haas: New String Quartet
    The Hagen Quartet will perform the world première of Georg Friedrich Haas' String Quartet No. 6 in [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas: new work for ensemble
    Georg Friedrich Haas: new work for ensemble
    Georg Friedrich Haas' „... damit ... die Geister der Menschen erhellt und ihr Verstand erleuchtet [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas and Sylvain Gambreling © Südkurier
    Georg Friedrich Haas: SWR Symphony Orchestra Composition Prize 2010
    Georg Friedrich Haas: SWR Symphony Orchestra Composition Prize 2010
    Georg Friedrich Haas’ work limited approximations, a concerto for 6 pianos in twelve-tone interval [...]
  • Georg Friedrich Haas
    Georg Friedrich Haas: Two world premières
    Georg Friedrich Haas: Two world premières
    Georg Friedrich Haas' limited approximations for 6 micro-tonally tuned pianos and orchestra in Donau [...]

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Georg Friedrich Haas

The Composer

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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 [...]

About the Music

Harmony of Futility

The latest music of Georg Friedrich Haas

If there is anything that can be viewed as the essence of his music, then it is experimentation with sound: Georg Friedrich Haas, who was born in 1953 in Graz and has quietly risen to become one of the most important Austrian composers internationally, always felt severely limited by the sonic and harmonic possibilities of the established system of equal temperament. Notes shaded by startling microtonal deviations, such as in his ensemble piece Nacht-Schatten (1991) or in his Hölderlin-based chamber opera Nacht (1995-96), have therefore been determining factors in his compositions since the beginning of his career. [...]

Reviews

Georg Friedrich Haas, “Darkness Audible” by Alex Ross, The New Yorker, Nov. 29, 2010.

10 of 100 Works

"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for 2 percussionists 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for viola, violoncello and double bas [...] 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for 7 instruments 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for bass flute 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for bass flute, bass clarinet and 2 p [...] 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for bass clarinet in Bb 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for bass tuba 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for double bass 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for trombone 1995
"... aus freier Lust ... verbunden ..." | for percussion I 1995

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