Abstrakt Unlike the conventional (and controversial) operatic com¬posers labelled as music realists, because of the subjects of their operas, the German composer Hauke Harder (1963) is concerned with a kind of a direct music reality, which is represented by acoustics. His main interest is in the quality of the intervals, very often derived from the harmonic spectrum of rather low (and thus unhearable fundamentals). In spite of his scientific training (he is a physicist by original occupa¬tion), he prefers rather intuitive approach to composition of the chosen elements. Quite important for his compositional development towards an extreme simplicity and concentration on immediate experience of the limited number of tones, were the influences from visual sphere: in above it was the painter Rainer Grodnick, and also the film makers Robert Bresson and Yasujiro Ozu.

Jaroslav Šťastný:
Hauke Harder, Music Realist
Stati a studie / Živá hudba 2015/6 / Publikováno 27. 3. 2016