Daniel Glaus


Daniel Glaus is a Swiss organist and composer. He is currently professor at the Zurich University of the Arts, the University of the Arts Bern and organist of the Bern Cathedral.

Life

Glaus studierte in Bern, Freiburg im Breisgau und Paris music theory, orgn and direction with. So far he has worked as a composer, church musician and is professor at the Zurich University of the Arts for composition and instrumentation, and at the University of the Arts Bern for organ and composition. Glaus also performs internationally as an organist and is involved in organ building. For example, as part of his research project Innov-Organ-um, he and his team developed a wind-dynamic organ in which the dynamics, timbre and pitch can be influenced by simply controlling the keys. Co-initiator of the IV International Congress for Church Music Ittingen 1997 as a continuation of the three church music congresses in Bern 1952, 1962 and 1972.
Glaus was influenced by encounters with composers such as Pierre Boulez, Gérard Grisey, Heinz Holliger, György Ligeti, Tristan Murail, Luigi Nono and Iannis Xenakis; outside the realm of composition, he also considers Augustinus von Hippo to be important, Massimo Cacciari, Heraclitus, Meister Eckhart, Maimonides, Plato, Rainer Maria Rilke, Emanuel Swedenborg, the Sohar and natural phenomena in general.
His works are performed by renowned musicians and orchestras at international festivals.

Work

  • Orgelstücke
  • Vocal music and Sunt lacrimae rerum, Komposition zu Meister Eckhart, Sola quae cantat audit et cui cantatur, Von den vier Enden der Welten
  • Chamber music
  • Orchestra werke Traum for winds and strings, Florestan und Eusebius für zwei Orchester, Meteorsteine, Sephiroth-Symphonien Nr. 1–4
  • Cycle De Angelis :
  • * De Angelis I: Organ
  • * De Angelis II: Choir
  • * De Angelis II: Duo für Flöte und Orgel mit mechanischer Registertraktur
  • * De Angelis IV: Motetten und Gesänge zum Karfreitag
  • * De Angelis V: 2 Orgeln, improvisierende Klarinettisten und 3 Instrumentalensembles
  • zwei Kammeropern Zerstreute Wege and ''Die hellen Nächte''