Hans Haug

Hans Haug (27 July 1900 in Basel – 15 September 1967 in Lausanne) was a Swiss composer and conductor, mainly of operas and theatrical music. He also became known as a composer for the classical guitar.

Haug studied at the Basel Conservatory with Egon Petri and Ernst Lévy as well as at the Munich Musikhochschule, where he studied with Ferruccio Busoni, Walter Courvoisier and Josef Pembaur. After short-term engagements as conductor in Grenchen and Solothurn, he became Second 'Kapellmeister' at the municipal orchestra and the theatre of Basel (1928–1934). He conducted the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Romande (1935–1938) and the Radio Orchestra Beromünster (1938–1943). In 1947, he succeeded Alexandre Denéréaz at the Lausanne Conservatory. In the years following World War II, he resumed an international conducting career and also his compositional interest in opera. Haug's catalogue of works is immense and includes operas, oratorios, symphonic works, concertos and film music in addition to string quartets, various chamber works, vocal music, as well as compositions for or including the guitar. Föllmi claims that Haug has been first and foremost a composer for the stage.

In December 1950, Haug's Concertino for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra won a prize at a composition competition for guitar at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Italy. It was Haug's first guitar composition. The prizewinners were promised that Segovia would premiere their pieces in the summer of 1952 and that they would be published afterwards by Schott of London. Whereas this promise was kept in the case of Tansman's Cavatina (Schott published it in 1952), Segovia never played Haug's Concertino, which had to await publication until three years after Haug's death in 1970. It appeared in a facsimile edition under the auspices of Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. Alexandre Lagoya and the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra played its world premiere.

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