Auf die ruhige Nachtzeit for Solo Voice & instruments (Full Score)

Huber Auf die ruhige Nachtzeit for Solo Voice & instruments (Full Score)

Auf die ruhige Nachtzeit for Soprano, Flute, Viola, Violoncello.

Born in Bern (Switzerland) on the 30th November 1924
 studies composition with his godfather Willy Burkhard in Zurich and with Boris Blacher in Berlin
 1959 international breakthrough as a composer: first performance of the chamber cantata "Des Engels Anredung an die Seele" at the World Music Days of the IGNM in Rome
 1964-73 director of the composition class at the Academy of Music in Basel
 1966/68/72 director of the composition seminars at the Gaudeamus Foundation in Bilthoven/Netherlands
 1969 founds the international composers’ seminar in the Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland)
 1970 Beethovenpreis of the city of Bonn (for "Tenebrae")
 1973-90 director of the composers’ class and of the Institute for contemporary music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough and Hans Wüthrich in Basel, Wolfgang Rihm, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Michael Jarrell, Günter Steinke, Dieter Mack, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Johannes Schöllhorn, Richard Nikolaus Wenzel and a couple of other today renowned composers.
 1978 Art Prize of the city of Basel
 1979-82 president of the Swiss Composers’ Association
 1984 starts his international activities as a guest composer
 1991 retires from teaching in Freiburg, working from now on exclusively as a guest professor

Klaus Huber is member of the "Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste", of the "Akademie der Künste Berlin" and of the "Freie Akademie der Künste Mannheim", honorary member of the ISCM as well as honorary doctor of the University of Strasbourg. He lives in Bremen and Panicale (Perugia/Italy).

Awarded the European Church Music Prize by the city of Schwäbisch Gmünd 2007. Music Prize Salzburg 2009. Ernst von Siemens-Musikpreis 2009.