Wolfgang Rihm (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlfɡaŋ ˈʁiːm]; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic...
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compositions by Wolfgang Rihm. His output numbers more than 500 works. Rihm's compositions were published by Universal Edition. IRCAM has a list of Rihm's works...
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German pole vaulter Wolfgang Reitherman (1909–1985), German-American Disney animator Wolfgang Rihm (1952–2024), German composer Wolfgang W.E. Samuel (born...
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Witold Lutosławski, Norbert Moret, Krzysztof Penderecki, André Previn, Wolfgang Rihm, Jörg Widmann, and John Williams. Mutter has received numerous awards...
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Oedipus (opera) (category Operas by Wolfgang Rihm)
Oedipus is an opera in two parts composed by Wolfgang Rihm to a German-language libretto that he based on the Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and...
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Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and more recently Wolfgang Rihm have been inspired by his music, as were French composers such as Georges...
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American professional wrestler (Jim Crockett Promotions, UWF, WWF). Wolfgang Rihm, 72, German composer (Jakob Lenz, Die Hamletmaschine, Dionysos), cancer...
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Reminiszenz (category Compositions by Wolfgang Rihm)
Reminiszenz is a song cycle for tenor and large orchestra by Wolfgang Rihm composed in 2016 for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. It is subtitled...
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composer, 38 25 July – Benjamin Luxon, British baritone, 87 27 July – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer, 72 1 August – Jürgen Ahrend, German organ builder...
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74, Czech folk singer-songwriter Mísia, 69, Portuguese fado singer Wolfgang Rihm, 72, German classical composer 28 Chino XL, 50, American rapper Martin...
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Die Eroberung von Mexico (category Operas by Wolfgang Rihm)
Eroberung von Mexico (The Conquest of Mexico) is an opera in four acts by Wolfgang Rihm, premiered at the Hamburg State Opera on 9 February 1992. The libretto...
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George Benjamin 2022–23 Esa-Pekka Salonen 2023–24 Jörg Widmann 2024–25 Wolfgang Rihm 2008–09 Mitsuko Uchida 2013–14 Christian Gerhaher 2014–15 Christian...
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Einfachheit or New Simplicity. The best-known of these composers is Wolfgang Rihm, who studied with Stockhausen in 1972–73. His orchestral composition...
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Jakob Lenz (opera) (category Operas by Wolfgang Rihm)
Jakob Lenz is a one-act chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm, written 1977–78 to a libretto by Michael Fröhling after Georg Büchner's 1836 novella Lenz which...
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Dionysos (opera) (category Operas by Wolfgang Rihm)
Dionysos is an opera by Wolfgang Rihm based on Friedrich Nietzsche's Dionysian Dithyrambs. The composer wrote the libretto and subtitled his work: "Opernphantasie...
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Die Hamletmaschine (opera) (category Operas by Wolfgang Rihm)
Die Hamletmaschine is an opera composed by Wolfgang Rihm to a German-language libretto based on Heiner Müller's 1977 play of the same name. The libretto...
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Quebec film by Paul Gury Séraphin (opera), an opera by German composer Wolfgang Rihm Seraphin (Xena), a minor character in Xena: Warrior Princess Séraphin:...
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the late Romantic and early modern eras. Karlheinz Stockhausen and Wolfgang Rihm are important composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. As of...
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Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Gérard Pesson, Robert H.P. Platz, Rolf Riehm, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino, Hans Zender, and Walter Zimmermann. In 1995, for...
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Nicolas Hodges (section Wolfgang Rihm)
Hodges premiered the concerto Sotto Voce II by Wolfgang Rihm and recorded it for CD. Subsequently, Rihm composed a new version of Zwei Linien for him,...
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in Germany, Austria, and the United States, with composers such as Wolfgang Rihm and George Rochberg. Currently active US-based composers widely described...
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has been adapted for the stage as Jakob Lenz, a 1978 chamber opera by Wolfgang Rihm. Lenz. Translated by Michael Hamburger. West Newbury: Frontier Press...
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Romantic poets, and contemporary poets. The tradition was carried on by Wolfgang Rihm, with cycles such as Reminiszenz (2017). Graham Waterhouse composed...
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Et Lux is a classical and choral album by German composer Wolfgang Rihm recorded in February 2014 by the Huelgas Ensemble with the Minguet Quartett, conducted...
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contemporary composers such as Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm. The firm was on the board of directors of the Händel-Gesellschaft in...
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1951 – Charo, Spanish-American singer, guitarist, and actress 1952 – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer and educator 1952 – Tim Sebastian, English journalist...
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(Der Mann im Fahrstuhl, 1988). In terms of plays turned into operas, Wolfgang Rihm created his version of Die Hamletmaschine in 1987, Pascal Dusapin composed...
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87, opera singer 13 July - Erwin Junker, 94, manufacturer 27 July - Wolfgang Rihm, 72, composer 30 July - Hans Lenk, 89, rower, Olympic champion 9 August...
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composition with Hans Werner Henze, Wilfried Hiller, Heiner Goebbels and Wolfgang Rihm. He studied as a clarinetist at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater...
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the "instrumental musique concrète" style, Lachenmann is alongisde Wolfgang Rihm as among the leading German composers of his time. Lachenmann was born...
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