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of Pittsburgh, Washington, San Francisco, Detroit,
Toronto, and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
In 2009 he made his debut with the symphony
orchestras of Vancouver and Sydney. Numerous
engagements as guest conductor await Martin
Haselböck in Europe, N.America and Asia during
the coming season, including his debut with the
Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra.
Martin Haselböck was appointed chief conductor
of Musica Angelica, Los Angeles, in 2004. He makes
regular appearances in California and abroad with
this ensemble. In 2007 together with the Wiener
Akademie he undertook an extensive tour comprising
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13 performances of Bach’s St Matthew Passion in
Mexico, the USA, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany and
Austria.
As an opera conductor Martin Haselböck can look
back on a distinguished career since his debut at the
Handel Festival, Göttingen. He was the first conductor
to work on new productions in the German language
of Mozart’s operas played on original instruments,
and for his production of Don Giovanni received the
Mozart Prize from the City of Prague in 1991.
Since 2000 he has conducted 14 new productions
at the Salzburg, Schwetzingen and Vienna
festivals, and appeared as guest conductor at the
opera houses of Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne and
Halle. In 2007 he bacame artistic director of the
Reinsberg Festival in lower Austria, where he so
far has directed acclaimed productions of Der
Freischutz, Fidelio, and Hänsel und Gretel.
Along with the Ameican actor John Malkovich
and the Austrian director Michael Sturminger
Martin Haselböck developed the music drama
“The Infernal Comedy” (taking as its subject the
Austrian serial murderer Jack Unterweger) written
for actor, 2 sopranos and orchestra on stage.
Martin Haselböck has received several prizes
and awards for his work, among which are the
Österreichische Ehrenkreuz (Austrian Cross of
Honour) for Science and Art, the Prague Mozart
Prize and the Hungarian Liszt Prize and lastly the
Große Ehrenzeichen (Grand Cross of Honour) for
Services to the Republic of Austria.
www.haselboeck.org
A CONCERT HALL AT THE
FOUNTAIN-HEAD
The Franz Liszt concert hall, which seats about
600, is located in the centre of Raiding, the
birthplace of Franz Liszt, in the immediate vicinity
of the house where the composer was born. The
architects were Atelier Kempe Thill, of Rotterdam,
who were chosen from 150 participants from
11 countries, in an internationally publicised
architectural competition.
Professor Karlheinz Müller, of Munich, the leading
expert in this field, was engaged as acoustic advisor.
All involved in the project had the common goal of
realising the criteria “See – Hear – Experience”.
The walls, supporting sufficiently thick surfaces,
are regarded as ideal for chamber music. With a
seating capacity of 570, a volume coefficient of
about 8m³ per person will be achieved, so that
excellent spatial acoustic properties are to be
expected.
In October 2006 the hall was opened in the course
of the 1 st International Franz Liszt Festival “Liszten
in Raiding”.
To make it possible to create a Liszt commemoration
centre in Raiding, suitable infrastructure
developments were undertaken. In particular, a
new garden area was landscaped to unite Franz
Liszt’s historic birthplace with the grounds of the
concert hall.
Translation: Stefan Lerche
english