The Swiss composer Paul Huber lost his parents as a ten-year-old boy and then grew up in Kirchberg with a foster family. Huber studied from 1940 to 1947 at the Zurich Conservatory – with the subjects of counterpoint, piano, organ and school music. After graduating, he studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Already in 1943 Paul Huber took up the position as organist at the city church of St. Nicholas in Wil, St. Gallen and finally became a lecturer for voice and piano to the Cantonal School of St. Gallen. In 1979, the theological faculty of the University of Freiburg awarded him an honorary doctorate in theology for his immense creation of works with spiritual and liturgical themes. Paul Huber followed the tradition of Anton Bruckner’s musical language and composed a tremendous oeuvre for choirs and orchestras, chamber music, school and children’s choirs, including numerous works for wind band/ brass band. Worth mentioning are his tremendous requiem for soli, choir and orchestra, the symphony “Of the fear of our time” and his festival “Frau Musika” which he wrote for the Confederate Music Festival St. Gallen.