Rihm, Wolfgang
Biography
Born: March 13, 1952
Country: Karlsruhe, Germany
Studies: Hochschule für Musik, Karlsruhe (1968-72)
Teachers: Eugene Velte, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Klaus Huber, Wolfgang Fortner, Humphrey Searle
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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. He studied composition with Eugen Werner Velte at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 1968–72 and first attended the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt in 1970. He also received encouragement from Wolfgang Fortner and Humphrey Searle in the early 1970s. He then studied composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne in 1972–73 and composition with Klaus Huber at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1973–76. In addition, he studied musicology with Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht at the Universität Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1973–76. He later received an honorary doctorate from the Freie Universität Berlin in 1998.
Among his early honours are the Preis der Stadt Stuttgart (1974), the Preis der Stadt Mannheim (1975), the Berliner Kunstpreis-Stipendium (1978), the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt (1978), the Reinhold Schneider-Preis der Stadt Freiburg im Breisgau (1978), the Stipendium der Stadt Hamburg (1979), a residency at the Villa Massimo in Rome from the Deutsche Künstlerakademie (1979–80), the Beethoven-Preis der Stadt Bonn (1981), and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (1983). He later received the Rolf-Liebermann-Preis (1986, for Die Hamletmaschine) and the Bundesverdienstkreuz from the government of Germany (1989), was elected to the Akademien der Künste in Berlin, Mannheim and Munich (1991) and his music was the focus of the Éclat festival – Tage für Neue Musik in Stuttgart (1994). He was featured as composer-in-residence at the Internationale Musikfestwochen Luzern (1997) and he received the Prix de Composition Musical de la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco (1997) and the Jacob Burckhardt-Preis der Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Stiftung (1998). In more recent years, he has received the Bach-Preis der Stadt Hamburg (2000), he was featured as composer-in-residence at the Salzburger Festspiele and the Musica festival in Strasbourg (both 2000) and he received the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Large-Scale Composition (2001, for Jagden und Formen). He was given the title Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France (2001) and received the Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis (2003), an entry in the Goldenes Buch der Stadt Karlsruhe (2003), the Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg (2004), First Prize in the ARD competition in Munich (2004, for Quartettstudie from 11. Streichquartett), and the British Composer Award for International Composition (2007, for Verwandlung I).
Prof. Rihm is also active in other positions. He has been a member of the presidium of the Deutscher Komponisten-Verband since 1982 and served as a member of the presidium of the Deutscher Musikrat in 1984–85. He served as co-editor of the journal Melos from 1984–89 and served as a musical advisor to the Deutsche Oper Berlin from 1984–89. He has served as a member of the advisory council of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWF in Baden-Baden since 1985 and as a member of the board of directors of GEMA since 1989 and served as a musical advisor to Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe from 1990–93.
He taught at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe from 1973–78 and has again taught there as Professor für Komposition since 1985. He has been a regular lecturer at Darmstadt since 1978, taught at the Musik-Akademie München in Munich in 1981 and taught as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 1984–85. Moreover, he was a guest speaker at the opening ceremony of the Salzburger Festspiele in 1991.
His primary publisher is Universal Edition.[1]
Works for Percussion
Stück - Percussion Trio
Tutuguri VI (Kreuze) - Musik nach Antonin Artaud - Percussion Sextet
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