Wolfgang Rihm

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Wolfgang Rihm
Rihm at the Kölner Philharmonie in 2007
Born (1952-03-13) 13 March 1952 (age 72)
EducationHochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
Occupations
  • Composer
  • Academic teacher
Organizations
Known for
Awards

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 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. His musical work includes more than 500 works.[1] In 2012, The Guardian wrote: "enormous output and bewildering variety of styles and sounds".[2]

Biography

Rihm was born on 13 March 1952, in

, 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. (See the 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—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 thirteen string quartets, the operas 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), more than thirty concertos 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. In 2008 Rihm composed KOLONOS | 2 Fragments by Hölderlin after Sophokles for orchestra and countertenor, premiered in Bad Wildbad with the countertenor Matthias Rexroth.[9][10]

Invited by Walter Fink, he was the fifth composer featured in the annual 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. He received an honorary doctorate of the Free University of Berlin in 1998.[11] In 2003 he received the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize.[12]

In March 2010 the

Avery Fisher Hall with the New York Philharmonic on 18 November 2010.[18]

Awards

Honorary doctorates

Memberships

Notable students

Works

Stage works

Orchestral works

  • Form / 2 Formen (second state)
  • Gejagte Form (first version)
  • Gejagte Form (second version)
  • IN-SCHRIFT (1995)
  • Ernster Gesang (1996)[28]
  • Jagden und Formen[29]
  • Jagden und Formen (state 2008)
  • Symphony No. 1, Op. 3
  • Symphony No. 2 (first and last movement)
  • Sub-Kontur for large orchestra
  • Vers une symphonie fleuve I–IV
  • IN-SCHRIFT 2 (2013)

Concertante

  • Violin
    • Gesungene Zeit
    • Lichtes Spiel
    • COLL'ARCO
  • Viola
    • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
    • Concerto for Viola and Orchestra No. 2
  • Violoncello
    • Konzert in einem Satz
    • Monodram
    • Styx und Lethe
    • Concerto en Sol (2018)[30]
  • String quartet
    • "CONCERTO"
  • Clarinet
    • Musik für Klarinette und Orchester
  • Oboe
    • Musik für Oboe und Orchester
  • Bassoon
    • Psalmus
  • Trumpet
    • Gebild
    • Marsyas, Rhapsodie für Trompete mit Schlagzeug und Orchester
  • Trombone
    • Canzona per sonare
  • Piano
    • Sphere
  • Harp
    • Die Stücke des Sängers
  • Organ
    • Unbenannt IV

Chamber works

  • Chiffre-Zyklus
    • Chiffre I (1982)
    • Nach-Schrift (eine Chriffre) (1982/2004)
    • Silence to be beaten (Chiffre II) (1983)
    • Chiffre III (1983)
    • Chiffre IV (1983/84)
    • Chiffre V (1984)
    • Bild (eine Chiffre) (1984)
    • Chiffre VI (1984)
    • Chiffre VII (1985)
    • Chiffre VIII (1985/88)

String quartet

  • Grave
  • Quartettstudie
  • String Quartet No. 1
  • String Quartet No. 2
  • String Quartet No. 3
  • String Quartet No. 4
  • String Quartet No. 5
  • String Quartet No. 6
  • String Quartet No. 7
  • String Quartet No. 8
  • String Quartet No. 9[31]
  • String Quartet No. 10
  • String Quartet No. 11
  • String Quartet No. 12
  • String Quartet No. 13

Vocal works

  • Voice and orchestra
    • Fünf 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

  1. An Zelter
  2. Gingo biloba
  3. Dämerung senkte sich von oben
  4. Worte sind der Seele Bild
  5. Phänomen
  6. Selige Sehnsucht
  7. Parabase
  8. Lebensgenuss
  9. Höchste Gunst
  10. Heut und ewig
  11. Aus "Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahren"
  12. Willst du dir ein gut Leben zimmern
  13. An Zelter

Choral works

  • Choir a cappella
    • Sieben Passions-Texte
  • Choir with orchestra or ensemble

Solo instruments

  • Über die Linie (violoncello)
  • Über die Linie VII (violin)

Piano solo

  • Auf einem anderen Blatt
  • Brahmsliebewalzer
  • Klavierstücke nos. 1–7 1970–80
  • Ländler 1979
  • Nachstudie
  • Zwiesprache 1999

Organ solo

  • Drei Fantasien

Writings

  • Rihm, Wolfgang (1997). Mosch, Ulrich (ed.). Ausgesprochen: Schriften und Gespräche (in German). Winterthur: Amadeus Verlag. .
  • Rihm, Wolfgang; Brinkmann, Reinhold (2001). Musik Nachdenken: Reinhold Brinkmann und Wolfgang Rihm im Gespräch (in German). Regensburg: ConBrio Verlag. .
  • Rihm, Wolfgang (2002). Mosch, Ulrich (ed.). Offene Enden: Denkbewegungen um und durch Musik (in German). Munich: Hanser Verlag. .

References

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  2. ^ Service, Tom (24 September 2012). "A guide to Wolfgang Rihm's music". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
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  11. ^ Dümling, Albrecht (23 November 1998). "Der Ort der Musik". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). Berlin. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  12. ^ Schwenger, Dietmar (31 January 2003). "Wolfgang Rihm erhält Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis". Musikwoche (in German). Munich. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
  13. ^ Hear and Now: Wolfgang Rihm: Episode 1 BBC, March 2010
  14. ^ Büning, Eleonore (29 July 2010). "Ich bin dein La-La-La-Labyrinth". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Frankfurt. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  15. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (1 August 2010). "A Nietzschean Plunge Into Sensual Labyrinths". The New York Times. New York City. Retrieved 25 October 2019.
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  19. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "Prof. Wolfgang Rihm, Ph.D. honoris causa". Karlsruhe University of Music. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  20. ^ "Pour le Mérite: Wolfgang Rihm" (PDF). www.orden-pourlemerite.de. 2018. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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  23. ^ Neuhoff, Bernhard (28 February 2019). "Wolfgang Rihm erhält Deutschen Musikautorenpreis: "Meine Musik ist nicht ängstlich"". br-klassik (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2020.
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