Composing by sight (“Das Auge komponiert”)

March 20, 2017 | Azra Ramić

On 27 and 28 January 2017, the Bern University of the Arts HKB held the symposium “Das Auge komponiert – Hermann Meier und das Verhältnis von Bild and Klang in der Musik nach 1945” (“Composing by sight – Hermann Meier and the relationship between image and sound in mus...

An outsider composer. The discovery of Hermann Meier

November 13, 2016 | Marianne Mühlemann

The outsider as a radical maverick

January 31, 2010 | Torsten Möller, Schweizer Musikzeitung

Music of unparalleled radicalism

January 29, 2010 | Kurt Heckendorn, Oltner Tagblatt

Uniquely radical. Neue Zürcher Zeitung

January 28, 2010 | Alfred Zimmerlin

Contemporaries without contact

January 26, 2010 | Sigfried Schibli, Basler Zeitung

Hermann Meier: Jubilee concert

September 24, 2009 | Dominik Blum

When he first heard some of Hermann Meier’s piano music, one of his grandsons remarked that it sounded like heavy metal. And indeed, Meier’s music is hardly ideal for esoterics or film-music lovers. There isn’t a note too many, and there’s no surrealistic “musical dirt...

An encounter with Hermann Meier

September 18, 2001 | Christa Salathé

Whether as a philosopher, a composer or simply as a human being: Hermann Meier was at one and the same time a visionary and a realist, a researcher and a rebel. Every conversation I had with him brought forth something thought-provoking, regardless of whether we talked...