Wolfgang Rihm: Music for Violin & Orchestra, Vol. 1

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Christoph-Mathias Mueller
Tianwa Yang
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz
Wolfgang Rihm

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Composition History

"Dritte Musik" is dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm's friend, the painter Kurt Kocherscheidt, and is a revision and expansion of an earlier work for chamber orchestra.

Composition History

The work "Lichtzwang" is subtitled 'In memoriam Paul Celan', a Romanian-born German author whose 1967 volume of poetry, published after his suicide, shares its title with the piece.

Composer Biography

Wolfgang Rihm, born in 1952, began composing at the age of 11 and studied with notable figures like Karlheinz Stockhausen and Klaus Huber.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Although influenced by the European avant-garde, Wolfgang Rihm has never repudiated the musical past, drawing upon the Austro-German late Romantic tradition.

Composer Biography

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most prolific present-day composers, with a catalogue of over 400 works spanning all major musical genres.

Composition History

"Gedicht des Malers" ('Poem of the Painter') was inspired by an imagined image of German artist Max Beckmann portraying Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe.