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Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952 in Karlsruhe ) is a Germany|German composer.
Rihm is Head of the Institute of Modern Music at the Karlsruhe Conservatory of Music and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival . He was honoured as Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001.
Career
Rihm finished both his school and his studies in music theory (with Hans H. Eggebrecht) in 1972, two years before the premiere of his early work Morphonie at the 1974 Donaueschingen Festival launched his career as a prominent figure in the European new music scene. Rihm's early work, combining contemporary techniques with the emotional volatility of Gustav Mahler|Mahler and of Arnold Schoenberg|Schoenberg 's early Expressionism (music)|expressionist period, was regarded by many as a revolt against the avant-garde generation of Pierre Boulez|Boulez , Karlheinz Stockhausen|Stockhausen (with whom he studied in 1972–73), and others, and led to a large number of commissions in the following years. In the late 1970s and early 1980s his name was associated with the movement called New Simplicity . His work still continues to plough expressionist furrows, though the influence of Luigi Nono , Helmut Lachenmann and Morton Feldman , amongst others, has affected his style significantly.
Rihm is an extremely prolific composer, with hundreds of completed scores, a large portion of which are yet to be commercially recorded. ( Vide the :de:Liste der Kompositionen von Wolfgang Rihm|List of the compositions of Wolfgang Rihm , in German, or the IRCAM works list, in French.) He does not always regard a finished work the last word on a subject& mdash;for example the orchestral work Ins Offene... (1990) was completely rewritten in 1992, and then used as the basis for his piano concerto Sphere (1994), before the piano part of Sphere was recast for the solo piano work Nachstudie (also 1994). (In 2002 Rihm also produced a new version of Nachstudie , Sphäre nach Studie , for harp, two double basses, piano and percussion, and also a new version of Sphere , called Sphäre um Sphäre , for two pianos and chamber ensemble.) Other important works include twelve string quartet s, the opera s Die Hamletmaschine (1983–1986, text by Heiner Müller ) and Die Eroberung von Mexico (1987–1991, based on texts by Antonin Artaud ), over twenty song-cycles, the oratorio Deus Passus (1999–2000) commissioned by the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart , the chamber orchestra piece Jagden und Formen (1995–2001) and a series of related orchestral works bearing the title Vers une symphonie fleuve . The New York Philharmonic premièred Rihm's 2004 commission Two Other Movements .
Invited by Walter Fink , he was the fifth composer featured in the annual Rheingau Musik Festival#Portraits of living composers|Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival in 1995, in two programs of chamber music and Lied , also of Robert Schumann , including his works Fremde Szene I for piano trio, Vier Lieder after poems of Paul Celan , Klavierstück 7 , Klavierstück 6 , Das Rot , six songs after poems of Karoline von Günderrode , Antlitz for violin and piano, and Fremde Szene III . In 1995 he contributed Communio (Lux aeterna) to the Requiem of Reconciliation . In 2003 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize .
In March 2010 the BBC Symphony Orchestra featured the music of Rihm in one of their 'total immersion' weekends at the Barbican Centre , London. Recordings from this weekend were used for three 'Hear and Now' programmes on BBC Radio 3 dedicated to his work. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rd4yh Hear and Now: Wolfgang Rihm: Episode 1 BBC , March 2010 On July 27, 2010, Rihm's latest opera, Dionysus , based on Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche ’s late cycle of poems Dionysus-Dithyrambs , had its world premiere at the Salzburg Festival , conducted by Ingo Metzmacher , and designed by Jonathan Meese . http://www.salzburgerfestspiele.at/language/en-us/oper/detail/id/9240/pid/4362/sid/91/ Wolfgang Rihm • Dionysus Salzburg Festival 2010 This performance was voted World Premiere of the Year (Uraufführung des Jahres) for 2010/11 by Opernwelt magazine http://www.salzburg.com/online/nachrichten/kultur/Salzburger-Dionysos-ist-Urauffuehrung-des-Jahres.html? article=eGMmOI8Vf0OUXORA5eG9f4EUeBGvh0CmMBrjBuI& img=& text=& mode=. He revised his Gegenstück (2006) for bass saxophone, percussion and piano, premiered on 16 August 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Walter Fink .Cite web|url= http://www.rheingau-musik-festival.de/rmf,en,156,komponistenwerkstatt,veranstaltung.html |title=Komponistenwerkstatt: Walter Fink zum 80. Geburtstag |language=German |year = 2010 | publisher = Rheingau Musik Festival | accessdate = 5 August 2010 Anne-Sophie Mutter premiered his violin concerto Lichtes Spiel (Light Games) in Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic on 18 November 2010.Cite web|url= http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/arts/music/20mutter.html |title=Pairing Wolfgangs From Two Eras |author = Vivien Schweitzer |date = 19 November 2010 | publisher = New York Times | accessdate = 23 August 2011
Selected list of works
Stage works
Dionysos
Die Eroberung von Mexico
Die Hamletmaschine
Jakob Lenz
Orchestral works
Form / 2 Formen (2nd state)
Gejagte Form (1st version)
Gejagte Form (2nd version)
IN-SCHRIFT
Jagden und Formen
Jagden und Formen (state 2008)
Symphonie n°1 op. 3
Symphonie n°2 (first and last movement)
Vers une symphonie fleuve I-IV
Solo instruments and orchestra
Violin
*Gesungene Zeit
*Lichtes Spiel
Viola
*Bratschenkonzert
*Bratschenkonzert n°2
Violoncello
*Konzert in einem Satz
*Styx und Lethe
String quartet
*”CONCERTO”
Clarinet
*Musik für Klarinette und Orchester
Oboe
*Musik für Oboe und Orchester
Bassoon
*Psalmus
Trumpet
*Gebild
Piano
*Sphere
Harp
*Die Stücke des Sängers
Organ
*Unbenannt IV
String quartet
Grave
Quartettstudie
Streichquartett n°1-12
Vocal works
Voice and orchestra
*5 Abgesangsszenen
*Drei späte Gedichte von Heiner Müller
*Ernster Gesang mit Lied
*Frau / Stimme
*Hölderlin-Fragmente
*Lenz-Fragmente
*Penthesilea Monolog
*Rilke: Vier Gedichte
Voice and piano
*Brentano-Phantasie
*Drei Hölderlin-Gedichte
Choral works
Choir a cappella
*Sieben Passions-Texte
Choir with orchestra or ensemble
*Astralis
*ET LUX
*Vigilia
Solo instruments
Über die Linie (violoncello)
Über die Linie VII (violin)
Piano solo
Auf einem anderen Blatt
Brahmsliebewalzer
Klavierstück n° 1-7 1970-1980
Ländler 1979
Nachstudie
Zwiesprache 1999
Organ solo
*Drei Fantasien
References
External links
http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/rihmw.htm Wolfgang Rihm on The Living Composers Project, worklist
http://www.universaledition.com/Wolfgang-Rihm/composers-and-works/composer/599 Wolfgang Rihm on the Universal Edition website
http://www.sospeso.com/contents/articles/rihm_p1.html Interview with Rihm Ensemble Sospeso, New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/02/arts/music/02dionysos.html? _r=2& ref=anthony_tommasini A Nietzschean Plunge Into Sensual Labyrinths Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times , 1 August 2010
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