Eine Biografie über Klaus Huber zu schreiben ist kein leichtes Unterfangen. Die Persönlichkeit des 2017 verstorbenen Komponisten war ebenso, sagen wir mal, problemorientiert wie sein von produktiven Widersprüchen und Brüchen durchzogenes Schaffen. Als erste hat nun Corinne Holtz den Versuch gewagt.
Nuria Schoenberg Nono, when did you meet Luigi Nono?
I’m very bad with dates, but this I remember exactly. It was 1954 in Hamburg. He came to the premiere of the opera Moses und Aron by my father, Arnold Schönberg.
How did he come up with the idea of going to Hamburg?
Gigi already knew my father’s music, and I think the conductor Hermann Scherchen gave him a ride. Since it was a premiere, three years after my father’s death, my mother also came from Los Angeles. Gigi was already well known in Germany at the time; a good ten of his works premiered there between 1950 and 1954.