Nicolaus A. Huber

Nicolaus A. Huber (born 15 December 1939 in Passau) is a German composer.

From 1958 to 1962 he studied music education at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich and subsequently composition with Franz Xaver Lehner and Günter Bialas. He pursued his education further with Josef Anton Riedl, Karlheinz Stockhausen and, above all, with Luigi Nono. From 1974 until his retirement in 2003 Huber was Professor of Composition at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen.

Compositions (selective list)
Traummechanik for percussion and piano (1967)
Aion for four-track tape and odors (1968/72)
Harakiri' for small orchestra and tape (1971)
Gespenster' for large orchestra, singer/speaker, and tape, on texts by Bertolt Brecht and Peter Maiwald (1976)
Darabukka for piano (1976)
dasselbe ist nicht dasselbe for snare drum (1978)
Morgenlied for large orchestra (1980)
Vor und zurück for oboe (1981)
Six Bagatelles for chamber ensemble and tape (1981)
Aus Schmerz und Trauer for alto saxophone or clarinet in B-flat (or Bassett horn) (1982)
Demijour for oboe, violoncello, and piano (1985/86)
Doubles, mit einem beweglichen Ton for string quartet (1987)
Go Ahead. Musik für Orchester mit Shrugs (1988)
Three Pieces for orchestra with breather/singer and obligato piano (1990/91)
First play Mozart for solo flute (1993)
Covered with Music for soprano, flute, accordion, percussion, and contrabass (1997)
ACH, DAS ERHABENE...(G. Benn) betäubte fragmente for two interlaced choirs of 36 voices (1999)
Der entkommene Orpheus for four guitars (2001)
O dieses Lichts! (G. Benn) for flute, violoncello, and piano (2002)
Werden Fische je das Wasser leid? (Ch. Bukowski) Music with Neglect-Syndrome for soprano and instrumentalists (2003)