Mathias Spahlinger
In Vain
Georg Friedrich Haas
Limited Approximations
Georg Friedrich Haas
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 siblings, I never learned to speak the local Alemannic dialect. Also, I was a Protestant in a predominantly Catholic society.”
Quelle: http://www.universaledition.com/Georg-Friedrich-Haas/composers-and-works/composer/278/biography
Mathias Spahlinger (* 15. Oktober 1944 in Frankfurt am Main) ist ein deutscher Komponist. Sein Schaffen vollzieht sich im Spannungsfeld der verschiedensten musikalischen Einflüsse und Stilrichtungen: zwischen Renaissance und Jazz, zwischen musique concrète und Webernschem Minimalismus, zwischen Geräusch, Improvisation und Notation, zwischen ästhetischer Autonomie und politischem Bewusstsein tragen die Werke Spahlingers Konflikte aus, für die es so keine festgelegten Vorbilder gibt. Quelle: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Spahlinger
