Klaus Huber

Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. He received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2009, among other awards.

Early life and education Huber was born on 30 November, 1924 in Bern, Switzerland. He first studied violin and music pedagogy from 1947 to 1949 at the Zurich Conservatory

He became one of the leading figures of his generation in Europe, alongside Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Stage works Jot oder Wann kommt der Herr zurück / Dialektische Oper in zwei Teilen (1973) Opera in two parts. Text: Philip Oxman, in German by Kurt Marti and Dietrich Ritschl In 2009, he received the Salzburg Music Prize and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig.