Heinz Holliger

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Heinz Holliger (born May 21, 1939(1939-05-21)) is a Swiss oboist, composer and conductor.

He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland and began his musical education at the conservatories of Bern and Basel. He studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez. He took first prize for oboe in the International Competition in Geneva in 1959.

He has become one of the world's most celebrated oboists, and numerous works have been written for him. He began teaching at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1966.

In 1972 Holliger, Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), and Christiane Jaccottet (continuo) et al recorded the Six Trio Sonatas for Oboe and Bassoon by Jan Dismas Zelenka. This recording is credited for the "Zelenka Renaissance".

Holliger has also composed many works in a variety of media. As an ECM artist, recordings of some of his works are readily available for buying.

[edit] Awards

[edit] Selected works

  • Sequenzen über Johannes I,32 (1962) for harp
  • Streichquartett (1973) for string quartet
  • Scardanelli-Zyklus (1975–1991) for solo flute, small orchestra, tape and mixed choir
  • Come and Go / Va et vient / Kommen und Gehen (1976/1977), opera to a text by Samuel Beckett
  • Not I (1978–1980) monodrama for soprano and tape
  • Lieder ohne Worte (1982–1994), two sets of works for violin and piano
  • What Where (1988), chamber opera
  • Alb-Chehr (1991) for speaker, singers and chamber ensemble
  • Konzert (Hommage à Louis Soutter) (1993–1995) for violin and orchestra
  • Schneewittchen (1998), opera based on a text by Robert Walser

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Léonie Sonning Music Prize Laureates
1959–1980

Igor Stravinsky (1959) · Leonard Bernstein (1965) · Birgit Nilsson (1966) · Witold Lutosławski (1967) · Benjamin Britten (1968) · Boris Christoff (1969) · Sergiu Celibidache (1970) · Arthur Rubinstein (1971) · Yehudi Menuhin (1972) · Dmitri Shostakovich (1973) · Andrés Segovia (1974) · Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1975) · Mogens Wöldike (1976) · Olivier Messiaen (1977) · Jean-Pierre Rampal (1978) · Janet Baker (1979) · Marie-Claire Alain (1980)
1981–2000

Mstislav Rostropovich (1981) · Isaac Stern (1982) · Rafael Kubelík (1983) · Miles Davis (1984) · Pierre Boulez (1985) · Sviatoslav Richter (1986) · Heinz Holliger (1987) · Peter Schreier (1988) · Gidon Kremer (1989) · György Ligeti (1990) · Eric Ericson (1991) · Georg Solti (1992) · Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1993) · Krystian Zimerman (1994) · Yuri Bashmet (1995) · Per Nørgård (1996) · András Schiff (1997) · Hildegard Behrens (1998) · Sofia Gubaidulina (1999) · Michala Petri (2000)
2001–present

Anne-Sophie Mutter (2001) · Alfred Brendel (2002) · György Kurtág (2003) · Keith Jarrett (2004) · John Eliot Gardiner (2005) · Yo-Yo Ma (2006) · Lars Ulrik Mortensen (2007) · Arvo Pärt (2008)