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In 1972, [[Maurice Bourgue]] (oboe), [[Klaus Thunemann]] (bassoon), [[Christiane Jaccottet]] (continuo), Holliger, and others recorded [[Jan Dismas Zelenka]]'s Six Trio Sonatas for oboe and bassoon. This recording is credited for the "Zelenka Renaissance".

He was married to the harpist [[Ursula Holliger]], {{lang|fr|née}} Hänggi (1937–2014).<ref>{{cite news |last=Apone |first=Carl |date=16 March 1989 |title=Holliger to debut Soviet oboe work |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517100/heinz-holliger-apone/ |work=[[The Pittsburgh Press]] |location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |page=27 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=31 May 2020 |archive-date=1 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801213445/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/52517100/heinz-holliger-apone/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Music==

Having studied composition with [[Sándor Veress]] and [[Pierre Boulez]],{{sfn|Kunkel|Stenzl|2003}} he has composed many works in a variety of genres, and many of his works have been recorded for the ECM label. AtHolliger thewas invitationinvited ofby [[Walter Fink]], Holligerto wasbe the 17th composer featured in the annual2007 [[Rheingau Musik Festival#Portraits of living composers|Komponistenporträt]] of the [[Rheingau Musik Festival]], in 2007 in chamber music and a symphonic concert.where Hehe conducted [[Claude Debussy]]'s and [[Robert Schumann]]'s music as well as his own ''Lieder'' (which set [[Georg Trakl]] poems) and ''Gesänge der Frühe'' (which set [[Friedrich Hölderlin]] and Schumann texts).

For [[Neue Musik|New Music]] patron [[Paul Sacher]]'s 70th birthday, Russian cellist [[Mstislav Rostropovich]] asked twelve composers, Sacher's friends, to write music for solo cello using the Sacher [[hexachord]]. (This [[musical cryptogram]] is [[E♭ (musical note)|eS]], [[A (musical note)|A]], [[C (musical note)|C]], [[B (musical note)|H]], [[E (musical note)|E]], and [[D (musical note)|Re]], or "Sacher" spelled with [[Musical note#History of note names|German words for the pitch classes]].) Holliger contributed a [[chaconne]].{{efn|The other contributions were [[Conrad Beck]]'s Drei Epigramme, Luciano Berio's ''Les mots sont allés ...'', Pierre Boulez's ''[[Messagesquisse]]'', [[Benjamin Britten]]'s Tema 'Sacher', [[Henri Dutilleux]]'s 3 Strophes sur le nom de Sacher, [[Wolfgang Fortner]]'s Thema und Variationen, [[Alberto Ginastera]]'s Puneña No. 2, [[Cristobal Halffter]]'s Variation über das Thema eSACHERe, [[Hans Werner Henze]]'s Cappriccio, [[Klaus Huber]]'s ''Transpositio ad infinitum'', and [[Witold Lutosławski]]'s Sacher-Variation.}} Some of the compositions were premiered in Zurich on 2 May 1976. Czech cellist [[František Brikcius]] gave the entire "eSACHERe" project its premiere in Prague during May 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brikcius.com/Projects.uk.eSACHERe.html |title=eSACHERe |access-date=10 October 2011 |archive-date=10 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120610072751/http://www.brikcius.com/Projects.uk.eSACHERe.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Awards==

* 1987: [[Léonie Sonning Music Prize]]<ref name="y017">{{cite web | title=Main prize recipients | website=Léonie Sonnings Musikpris | date=21 March 2021 | url=https://www.sonningmusik.dk/main-prize-recipients/?lang=en | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=9 January 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230109160943/https://www.sonningmusik.dk/main-prize-recipients/?lang=en | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 1991: [[Ernst von Siemens Music Prize]]<ref name="u111">{{cite web | title=HauptpreisträgerInnen Archiv | website=Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung | url=https://www.old.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/preise/preise/archiv/hauptpreistraegerinnen.html | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=21 April 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421145638/https://www.old.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/preise/preise/archiv/hauptpreistraegerinnen.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 1994: [[Prince_Pierre_Foundation#Music_Composition_Prize|The Prince Pierre of Monaco Music Composition Prize]] for ''(S)irató''<ref name="v484">{{cite web | last=Pierre | first=Fondation Prince | title=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco | website=Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco | url=https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/1994 | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812101500/https://www.fondationprincepierre.mc/en/music/prize/the-musical-composition-prize/1994 | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2007: Zürich Festival Prize<ref>[https://archive.today/20120629122842/http://www.schott-music.com/news/archiv/show,881.html "Zurich Festival Prize for Heinz Holliger"], [[Schott Music]]</ref>

* 2008: [[Rheingau Musik Preis]]<ref name="o247">{{cite web | title=Rheingau Musik Preis | website=Rheingau Musik Festival | url=https://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/festival/preise-und-auszeichnungen/rheingau-musik-preis | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024}}</ref>

* 2016: Honorary member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]]<ref name="c013">{{cite web | title=Heinz Robert Holliger | website=American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences | date=1 July 2024 | url=https://www.amacad.org/person/heinz-robert-holliger | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=29 April 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230429194545/https://www.amacad.org/person/heinz-robert-holliger | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2017: [[Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau]]<ref name="d075">{{cite web | title=Preisträger | website=Willkommen in der Robert-Schumann-Stadt Zwickau! | url=https://www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/02/02/preistraeger.php | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=10 May 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190510202827/https://www.schumann-zwickau.de/de/02/02/preistraeger.php | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2018: [[Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts]]<ref name="j788">{{cite web | title=Holliger | website=ORDEN POUR LE MÉRITE | url=http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/heinz-holliger | language=de | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102245/http://www.orden-pourlemerite.de/mitglieder/heinz-holliger | url-status=live }}</ref>

* 2022: [[Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music]]<ref name="Deutschlandfunk Kultur 2021">{{cite web | title=Komponist Heinz Holliger erhält Schumann-Preis | website=[[Deutschlandfunk Kultur]] | date=26 April 2021 | url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/komponist-heinz-holliger-erhaelt-schumann-preis-102.html | language=de | access-date=27 April 2022 | archive-date=26 April 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220426224456/https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/komponist-heinz-holliger-erhaelt-schumann-preis-102.html | url-status=live }}</ref>

==Selected works==

Source:<ref name="k210">{{cite web | title=Heinz Holliger | website=Schott Music | date=21 May 1939 | url=https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/heinz-holliger#person_worklist | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102437/https://www.schott-music.com/en/person/heinz-holliger#person_worklist | url-status=live }}</ref>

* ''Sequenzen über Johannes I,32'' (1962) for harp

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==Discography==

* ''Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonatas'' (ECM, 1997)<ref name="i641">{{cite web | title=Jan Dismas Zelenka: Trio Sonatas | website=ECM Records | date=17 April 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/jan-dismas-zelenka-trio-sonatas-heinz-holliger-maurice-bourgue-thomas-zehetmair-kalus-thunemann-klaus-stoll-jonathan-rubin-christiane-jaccottet/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102637/https://ecmrecords.com/product/jan-dismas-zelenka-trio-sonatas-heinz-holliger-maurice-bourgue-thomas-zehetmair-kalus-thunemann-klaus-stoll-jonathan-rubin-christiane-jaccottet/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

* ''Sándor Veress: Passacaglia / Songs / Musica Concertante'' (ECM, 2000)<ref name="y920">{{cite web | title=Sándor Veress: Passacaglia Concertante / Songs Of The Seasons / Musica Concertante | website=ECM Records | date=12 March 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/sandor-veress-passacaglia-concertante-songs-of-the-seasons-musica-concertante-heinz-holliger-camerata-bern-london-voices/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102729/https://ecmrecords.com/product/sandor-veress-passacaglia-concertante-songs-of-the-seasons-musica-concertante-heinz-holliger-camerata-bern-london-voices/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

* ''Beiseit / Alb-Chehr'' (ECM, 2000)<ref name="t866">{{cite web | title=Heinz Holliger: Beiseit / Alb-Chehr | website=ECM Records | date=29 May 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/heinz-holliger-beiseit-alb-chehr-david-james-elmar-schmid-teodoro-anzellotti-johannes-nied-heinz-holliger-franziskus-abgottspon-oberwalliser-spillit/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102825/https://ecmrecords.com/product/heinz-holliger-beiseit-alb-chehr-david-james-elmar-schmid-teodoro-anzellotti-johannes-nied-heinz-holliger-franziskus-abgottspon-oberwalliser-spillit/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

* ''Lauds and Lamentations'' (ECM, 2003)<ref name="c931">{{cite web | title=Music of Elliott Carter and Isang Yun | website=ECM Records | date=3 June 2024 | url=https://ecmrecords.com/product/lauds-and-lamentations-music-of-elliott-carter-and-isang-yun-heinz-holliger-thomas-zehetmair-ruth-killius-thomas-demenga/ | access-date=12 August 2024 | archive-date=12 August 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240812102935/https://ecmrecords.com/product/lauds-and-lamentations-music-of-elliott-carter-and-isang-yun-heinz-holliger-thomas-zehetmair-ruth-killius-thomas-demenga/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

==References==

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| date = November 1972

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| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181024090909/https://www.gramophone.co.uk/feature/an-interview-with-heinz-holliger

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| year = 1981

| access-date = 30 May 2018

| archive-date = 26 February 2018

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180226181609/http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/arts/heinz-holliger-refutes-thesis-that-the-oboe-is-an-ill-wind.html

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| publisher = [[BBC]]

| access-date = 30 May 2018

| archive-date = 4 June 2018

| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180604162839/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/cd5a15f3-8937-49da-9719-d3790136802c

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* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Burgess |first=Geoffrey |year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Oboe |section=II. The European treble oboe |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40450 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000040450 }} {{Grove Music subscription}}

* {{cite encyclopedia |last1=Kunkel |first1=Michael |last2=Stenzl |first2=Jürg |author-link2=Jürg Stenzl |year=2003 |orig-year=2001 |encyclopedia=[[Grove Music Online]] |title=Holliger, Heinz |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.13230 |isbn=978-1-56159-263-0 |url-access=subscription |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013230 |access-date=9 August 2021 |archive-date=9 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210809173858/https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000013230 |url-status=live }} {{Grove Music subscription}}

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