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Heinz Robert Holliger is a Swiss composer, virtuoso oboist, and conductor. Celebrated for his versatility and technique, Holliger is among the most prominent oboists of his generation. His repertoire includes Baroque and Classical pieces, but he has regularly engaged in lesser known pieces of Romantic music, as well as his own compositions. He often performed contemporary works with his wife, the harpist Ursula Holliger. Many composers have written works for him, including Messiaen, Berio, Carter, Henze, Krenek, Lutosławski, Martin, Penderecki, Stockhausen and Yun. A noted composer himself, Holliger has written works such as the opera Schneewittchen (1998).

Biography
Holliger was born in Langenthal, Switzerland. ==Music==
Music
Having studied composition with Sándor Veress and Pierre Boulez, he has composed many works in a variety of genres, and many of his works have been recorded for the ECM label. Holliger was invited by Walter Fink to be the 17th composer featured in the 2007 Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival, where he conducted Claude Debussy's and Robert Schumann's music as well as his own Lieder (which set Georg Trakl poems) and Gesänge der Frühe (which set Friedrich Hölderlin and Schumann texts). For New Music patron Paul Sacher's 70th birthday, Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich asked twelve composers, Sacher's friends, to write music for solo cello using the Sacher hexachord. (This musical cryptogram is eS, A, C, H, E, and Re, or "Sacher" spelled with German words for the pitch classes.) Holliger contributed a chaconne. Some of the compositions were premiered in Zurich on 2 May 1976. Czech cellist František Brikcius gave the entire "eSACHERe" project its premiere in Prague during May 2011. ==Awards==
Selected works
Source: • Sequenzen über Johannes I,32 (1962) for harp • Siebengesang (1966–1967) for solo oboe, orchestra, voices and loudspeaker* • Studie über Mehrklänge (1971) for oboe solo • String Quartet (1973) • 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 BeckettNot I (1978–1980) monodrama for soprano and tape • Lieder ohne Worte (1982–1994), two sets of works for violin and piano • Präludium, Arioso and Passacaglia, for two guitars (1985) • Gesänge der Frühe for choir, orchestra and tape, after Schumann and Hölderlin (1987) • What Where (1988), chamber operaAlb-Chehr (1991) for speaker, singers and chamber ensemble • (S)irató for orchestra (1992–03) • Fünf Lieder für Altstimme und großes Orchester nach Gedichten von Georg Trakl (1992–2006) • Violin Concerto "Hommage à Louis Soutter" (1993–1995) • Schneewittchen (1998), opera based on a text by Robert WalserPartita (1999), piano cycle • Puneigä, ten songs with twelve players after Anna Maria Bacher's poems (2000/02) • ''Ma'mounia'' for percussion solo and instrumental quintet (2002) • Romancendres for cello and piano (2003) • Induuchlen, four songs for counter-tenor and horn, for Klaus Huber (2004) • Toronto-Exercises for flute (also alto flute), clarinet, violin, harp and marimbaphone (2005) • Lunea (2018), opera based on texts by Nikolaus Lenau ==Discography==
Discography
Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonatas (ECM, 1997) • Sándor Veress: Passacaglia / Songs / Musica Concertante (ECM, 2000) • Beiseit / Alb-Chehr (ECM, 2000) • Lauds and Lamentations (ECM, 2003) ==References==
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