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Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been a composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival .
Wolfgang Michael Rihm ist ein deutscher Komponist, Musikwissenschaftler und Essayist.
Wolfgang Rihm (b. 13 March 1952, Karlsruhe). German composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed throughout the world. Prof. Rihm began composing at age eleven.
Rihm is a composer, professor of composition at the Music Academy of his native city (Vykintas Baltakas and Jörg Widmann count amongst his many students there), a remarkable writer on music with several books to his name, including collections of his articles and interviews.
for orchestra This work completes the Verwandlung cycle for the time being. As often is the case with Rihm you can hear earlier work here now in a new form. String Quartet 12 is clearly heard ...
Wolfgang Rihm began composing at a very early age. He first studied composition with Eugen Werner Velte, Wolfgang Fortner, and Humphrey Searle at the Music Academy in his hometown of Karlsruhe.
Rihm’s ultimate achievement in Jagden und Formen is to marshal what could have been a disparate profusion of material into a single urgent trajectory. In so doing, he has produced a blistering but also accessible experience which is mandatory listening to anyone looking for the cutting edge of contemporary musical thought.
This article explores the theme of self and other in Wolfgang Rihm's music drama Die Eroberung von Mexico. After examining how the vocal distinctions between Montezuma and Cortez serve to dramatize the mutual cultural incomprehension of these two characters, it considers how each of them becomes mentally deranged.
Sep 1, 2022 · Wolfgang Rihm is one of the world’s most important contemporary composers: with his 400+ works, the polymath from Karlsruhe has created a universe that is almost impossible to pigeonhole.
Aug 15, 2018 · Wolfgang Rihm's is one of the more radical – which is to say ‘deep’ and ‘rooted’ – relationships towards tonality among all post-war composers. In this article, I concentrate on the role psychosis plays in this relationship, arguing that tonality for Rihm often assumes the operations of what Jacques Lacan called a ...
