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| Martin Haselböck | |
|---|---|
| Name | Martin Haselböck |
| Birth date | 26 September 1954 |
| Birth place | Vienna, Austria |
| Nationality | Austrian |
| Occupation | Organist, Conductor, Educator |
Martin Haselböck (born 26 September 1954) is an Austrian organist, conductor, and musicologist noted for his work with historical instruments and baroque performance practice. He is founder and artistic director of the Vienna Bach Soloists and has held academic posts that connect performance, scholarship, and instrument restoration. His career spans collaborations with major European ensembles, appearances at leading festivals, and a substantial discography emphasizing baroque and classical repertoires.
Haselböck was born in Vienna and studied organ and harpsichord in institutions linked to the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Mozarteum University Salzburg, studying under teachers associated with the traditions of Anton Bruckner and Franz Schmidt. He pursued further scholarship in keyboard technique and organ construction in study visits to the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany, engaging with organ collections in cities such as Hamburg, Leipzig, and Amsterdam. His formative influences include contact with performers and scholars connected to the legacies of Gustav Leonhardt, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Ton Koopman, and members of the Historische Aufführungspraxis movement.
Haselböck founded and directed ensembles that focus on baroque and classical repertoire, most prominently the Vienna Bach Soloists, which performed at venues including the Wiener Musikverein, the Konzerthaus, Vienna, and international festivals such as the Salzburg Festival and the Lucerne Festival. He has collaborated with soloists and conductors whose careers intersect with institutions like the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and has appeared alongside performers connected to the traditions of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Franz Schubert. His work encompasses concert cycles, oratorio presentations, and projects that reconstruct historical concert practices tied to archives in Vienna City Library, the Austrian National Library, and church collections in Lower Austria.
As a conductor, Haselböck concentrates on keyboard concertos, sacred choral works, and operatic excerpts from the baroque and classical eras, programming pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Antonio Vivaldi, while also presenting works by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven. He has led performances in historically informed settings that involve collaborations with instrument makers and restorers associated with institutions such as the Organ Museum Speyer and workshops in Tyrol and Styria, emphasizing the use of period organ models, continuo practice, and basso continuo conventions tied to early treatises by Johann Mattheson, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, and Johann Sebastian Bach (W.F. Bach edition). His repertoire selections have been presented in curated festival programs at sites including the Easter Festival Salzburg, the Schloss Esterházy, and churches in the Wachau.
Haselböck's discography includes recordings on labels that specialize in early music and historical performance, featuring interpretations of Bach cantatas, organ works, and orchestral repertoire by baroque and classical masters. His recordings have been issued in contexts involving ensembles and soloists associated with the Archiv Produktion tradition, independent European early-music labels, and collaborations with artists connected to the Early Music Network and national radio archives such as ORF and BR. Repertoire documented in his discs ranges from complete liturgical cycles to reconstructed concerto programs tied to manuscript sources held in collections like the Austrian National Library and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden.
Haselböck has held teaching posts and guest professorships at conservatories and universities including the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Mozarteum University Salzburg, and other European academies that maintain programs in organ, historical keyboards, and ensemble direction. His pedagogical activities encompass masterclasses, lectures, and supervision of performance projects that interface with archival research at institutions such as the International Bachakademie Stuttgart, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and regional music conservatories in Vienna and Salzburg. He has contributed to curricula that link organology, liturgical repertory, and performance practice drawing on sources from libraries like the Bodleian Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Haselböck's contributions have been recognized by cultural institutions and award bodies within Austria and across Europe, including honors conferred by municipal and national arts councils, festival boards, and academies connected to baroque scholarship and performance. He has received acknowledgments from organizations related to the preservation of historical instruments and from foundations that promote early-music education, comparable to awards issued by the Austrian Music Council, the City of Vienna, and European cultural funds that support heritage music projects.
Category:Austrian organists Category:Austrian conductors (music) Category:1954 births Category:Living people