Bernhard Haas (born 1964) is a German
organist
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,
music theorist
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and academic.
Life
Haas studied
organ
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* Organ (biology), a group of tissues organized to serve a common function
* Organ system, a collection of organs that function together to carry out specific functions within the body.
Musical instruments
...
,
piano
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,
harpsichord
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, sacred music, composition and music theory in
Cologne
Cologne ( ; ; ) is the largest city of the States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city pr ...
,
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau or simply Freiburg is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, fourth-largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, Mannheim and Karlsruhe. Its built-up area has a population of abou ...
and
Vienna
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. He won several international prizes at organ competitions, such as the Bach-Wettbewerb in Wiesbaden 1983 and the Liszt-Wettbewerb in
Budapest
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in 1988.
From 1989 to 1995 he taught organ and organ-improvisation at the music school in
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...
. In 1994 he became an organ professor at the
.
In 2012/13 he moved to the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München
The University of Music and Theatre Munich (), also known as the Munich Conservatory, is a performing arts music school, conservatory in Munich, Germany. The main building it currently occupies is the former ''Führerbau'' of the NSDAP, locate ...
to succeed
Edgar Krapp
Edgar Krapp (born 3 June 1947 in Bamberg) is a German organist and music professor. Krapp is a member of the Board of the Neue Bachgesellschaft (New Bach Society) in Leipzig and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts.
Biography
Krapp's first organ les ...
.
He has been toured in Europe as well as to the US and Japan. His main interest is music of the 17th and 19th century, contemporary music,
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Help:IPA/Standard German, joːhan zeˈbasti̯an baχ ( – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque music, Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety ...
and
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age ...
. He has also released CDs of adaptations of works by
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. With a diverse List of compositions by Franz Liszt, body of work spanning more than six ...
,
Max Reger
Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 187311 May 1916) was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. He worked as a concert pianist, a musical director at the Paulinerkirche, Leipzig, Leipzig University Chu ...
,
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century c ...
,
Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...
,
Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (January 12, 1926 – September 3, 1987) was an American composer. A major figure in 20th-century classical music, Feldman was a pioneer of indeterminacy in music, a development associated with the experimental New York School o ...
and
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and enginee ...
.
As a musicologist, he has written a book on 'new tonality' from
Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert (; ; 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical period (music), Classical and early Romantic music, Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a List of compositions ...
to
Webern
Anton Webern (; 3 December 1883 – 15 September 1945) was an Austrian composer, conductor, and musicologist. His music was among the most radical of its milieu in its lyric poetry, lyrical, poetic concision and use of then novel atonality, aton ...
and a collaboration with Veronica Diederen on the
two-part inventions
The Inventions and Sinfonias, BWV 772–801, also known as the Two- and Three-Part Inventions, are a collection of thirty short keyboard compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750): 15 inventions, which are two-part contrapuntal pieces, and ...
by J. S. Bach.
[''Die zweistimmigen Inventionen von Johann Sebastian Bach: neue musikalische Theorien und Perspektiven''. Zusammen mit Veronica Diederen. Hildesheim: Olms Verlag 2008. ]
Selected discography
* ''Liszt und Stravinsky in Bearbeitungen für Orgel'' (''Arrangements of Liszt and Stravinsky for organ'')
** Franz Liszt:
Sonata in B minor, S. 178; Igor Stravinsky:
The Rite of Spring
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. Transcribed for organ by Bernhard Haas.
*** Recorded in 1993 on the Kleuker-Steinmeyer organ in the
Tonhalle, Zürich
The Tonhalle is a concert hall in Zurich, home to the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, one of Switzerland's leading orchestras. The 1455-seat hall, located at Claridenstrasse 7 in Zurich, was inaugurated in 1895 by Johannes Brahms. The hall is consid ...
, Switzerland. Audite 20.009. 1 CD.
* ''Max Reger: Variationen und Fuge
op. 73, Introduktion, Passacaglia und Fuge,
op. 127''
** Recorded in 1996 on the
Rieger organ of the
Konzerthaus, Vienna
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, Austria. Audite 20.020. 1 CD.
* ''Max Reger: Organ Works Volume 1''
** Ten Pieces,
op. 69; Preludes and Fugues
op. 85 nos. 1-3.
*** Recorded by Bernhard Haas in 1997 on the Link organ in the Evangelischen Kirche in
Giengen an der Brenz
Giengen (; full name: Giengen an der Brenz; Swabian: ''Gẽänge'') is a former Free Imperial City in eastern Baden-Württemberg near the border with Bavaria in southern Germany. The town is located in the district of Heidenheim at the eastern ...
, Germany. Naxos 8.553926. 1 CD.
* ''Ferneyhough, Feldman, Scelsi, Xenakis: Die Orgelwerke'' (''Ferneyhough, Feldman, Scelsi, Xenakis: The Organ Works'')
** Ferneyhough: Seven Stars; Feldman: Principal Sound;
Scelsi
Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi (; 8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988, sometimes cited as 8 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
He is best known for having composed music based around only one pitch, ...
: In nomine Lucis; Xenakis: Gmeoorh
*** Recorded in 2007 on the Rieger organ of the
Essen Cathedral
Essen Minster (German: ), since 1958 also Essen Cathedral () is the seat of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Essen, the "Diocese of the Ruhr", founded in 1958. The church, dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and the Blessed Virgin Mary, stands on ...
, Germany. Edition Zeitklang 35033. 1 CD.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Haas, Bernhard
1964 births
Living people
German male organists
German music theorists
Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Saar
21st-century German organists
21st-century German male musicians
Academic staff of the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart
Academic staff of the University of Music and Theatre Munich