Wolfgang Rihm
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Wolfgang Rihm musica viva vol. 32 - Requiem-Strophen
NEOS 11732 October 2018 Wolfgang Rihm Sphären
NEOS 11520 June 2017 Peter Ablinger, Ondřej Adámek, Friedrich Cerha, Brian Ferneyhough, Hanspeter Kyburz, Kryštof Mařatka, Wolfgang Rihm, François Sarhan, Salvatore Sciarrino, Simon Steen-Andersen, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Jennifer Walshe Donaueschinger Musiktage 2014
NEOS 11522-24 / NEOS 51501 October 2015 Andreas Dohmen, Saed Haddad, Lars Petter Hagen, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Rihm, Rebecca Saunders, Iris ter Schiphorst, Hans Thomalla Donaueschinger Musiktage 2011
NEOS 11214-16 October 2012 Wolfgang Rihm, Ernst Toch Konzert in einem Satz - Konzert für Violoncell und Kammerorchester
NEOS 11038 August 2011 Wolfgang Rihm, Béla Bartók Schrift-Um-Schrift
NEOS 11032 August 2010 Wolfgang Rihm Vigilia
NEOS 10817 April 2010 Wolfgang Rihm La musique creuse le ciel
NEOS 10721 June 2009 Wolfgang Rihm Piano Pieces
NEOS 10717/18 May 2008 Ole-Henrik Moe, Saed Haddad, Wolfgang Rihm, Julio Estrada Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006 Vol. 1
NEOS 10724 September 2007
“A composer must be both highly intellectual and emotional in music.”
Wolfgang Rihm, born in 1952 in Karlsruhe, already attempting to realize this idea in his early works, had to face an initial wave of misunderstanding and disagreement. The first works, that the student of Eugen Werner Velte, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Wolfgang Fortner and Klaus Huber presented at the Donaueschingen Festival in the 1970s, provoked intense and controversial discussions. At the same time, Rihm was nonetheless recognized as an exceptional talent and both encouraged and supported in his endeavours. In 1978 he was awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize, followed a year later by the Villa Massimo Scholarship in Rome. His two chamber operas Faust und Yorick (1976) and Jakob Lenz (1977–78), along with his dramatic works Die Hamletmaschine (1983–86), Oedipus (1986–87), Die Eroberung von Mexiko (1987–91) and Séraphin ( 1994) established Rihm’s position as one of the most important contemporary composers of musical theatre. Alongside this he also wrote more than 200 orchestral works and pieces of chamber music. Since 1978 Wolfgang Rihm has regularly lectured at the Darmstadt Summer Courses and has been a professor of composition since 1985 at the Karlsruhe Music Academy, where he simultaneously heads the Institute for New Music. Some of his most renowned former students are Vykintas Baltakas, Rebecca Saunders and Jörg Widmann. Rihm has been awarded a multitude of prizes for his work as a composer: Beethoven Prize of the city of Bonn (1981), Rolf Liebermann Prize (1986), Bach Prize of the city of Hamburg (1999), Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award (2000), Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2003), Knight Commander’s Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany (2014), Mark of Honour of the Land Salzburg (2015) and many others. Incited by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, he wrote four companion pieces to the four symphonies of Johannes Brahms, which were fully performed for the first time in August 2012 at the Lucerne Festival. Since the summer of 2016 he has been the General Artistic Director of the Lucerne Festival Academy. In January 2016 his orchestral work Reminiszenz/Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn was premiered as part of the opening ceremony of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. Wolfgang Rihm divides his time between Karlsruhe and Berlin.
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