Klaus Huber

Composer Klaus Huber was born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1924. His music training began with private lessons in violin. In 1947 he entered the Zurich Conservatory where he began composition studies alongside his instrumental, continuing on this dual course of learning until 1955-1956, when his own music was first publicly performed. His breakthrough onto the international scene came in 1959 with "Des Engels Anredung an die Seele," a then-unorthodox work that used consonant intervals within a strictly serial context, rejecting the dogmatisms of the Darmstadt school; it won him fi...