Umgepflügte Zeit

This volume of writings and interviews by Klaus Huber offers a representative cross-section of the composer's extensive work on music theory. The texts revolve around current issues of composing and the always problematic relationship between art, artist and society and reveal the foundations of his musical language: the influence of Anton Webern and Igor Stravinsky, serial composition, the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance and composing with new tonal systems. The ideas of the mystics, social criticism with a Christian undertone and a deep interest in the cultures of the world combine to create a strictly personal political aesthetic. And one question runs like a red thread through all these discussions: What can humanistic art achieve in our conflict-ridden world?

Klaus Huber, born in Bern in 1924, is one of the defining figures of music in the second half of the 20th century. From 1973 to 1990, he taught composition in Freiburg im Breisgau and then continued his teaching activities in courses and seminars worldwide. He holds honorary doctorates from the Université de Strasbourg and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Leipzig. He lives in Bremen and Panicale, Umbria, Italy.

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