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“Miracle
of the century
PETER
HUEBNER
the mysterious classic star
The world
has never seen anything like this before,
let alone heard anything like it:
Success
in classical music continued
1
Klaus
Umbach (left), chief music editor of “Der Spiegel” in conversation
with the composer.
Piano
concertos, cello concertos, violin concertos, bell concertos, “Huebner
plays Huebner” on the guitar and the pianoforte, sequences I, II, III,
respectively the Sun, Moon, and Star Symphonies. Hymns of the Sun, the Moon,
the Winds, all longer than Beethoven’s Ninth.
Eight Hymns of the Planets, eight
Symphonies of the Planets, “Hymns of the Domes”, “Voice of
the Domes”, ...16 times “Metamorphoses for Woodwind Players and
large String Orchestra”...
Peter
Huebner-“Fan”
Rudolf Augstein,
DER SPIEGEL –
co-owner and publisher
now writes history with
his magazine
The
highlight, however, is the “Art of the Feminine”,... in 7 paths of
love, and in 7 paths of harmony, each path separated into 16 numbered variations
of “meditation”....
To all at once throw
144 freshly pressed silver discs onto an ailing classical market is a world
record.... What a creative giant! ... In short: The man is music. ....
The last time anything comparable
may have occurred, if at all, was more than 200 years ago. At that time, a
boy from Salzburg presented the world with so many treasures that Wolfgang
Hildesheimer who later became his biographer called him “an undeserved
gift to mankind”. With Mozart, the poet went into raptures, “nature
had given birth to a unique work of art that could probably not be repeated.”
Until a short while
ago, there was some truth in that: A similar godsend took its time, a second
Amadeus was nowhere to be seen. Nobody could guess that in the middle of Germany
the son of a Thuringian shoe manufacturer was maturing into the miracle of the
century... .”
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