Rainer Riehn

Rainer Riehn ( born November 12, 1941 in Gdańsk ) is a German composer and conductor, as well as co-editor of musicological journals.

Riehn studied musicology in Mainz, Zurich and Berlin, and composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Utrecht. He called in 1969 along with the music theorist Heinz- Klaus Metzger, the "Ensemble Musica Negativa " in life, its name and program was oriented toward " Negative Dialectics " of Theodor W. Adorno and the performance radically new music dedicated to, and a. of John Cage (1912-1992), Morton Feldman (1926-1987), Earle Brown (1926-2002), José Luis de Delas (* 1928 ), Dieter Schnebel ( b. 1930 ), Christian Wolff ( born 1934 ) and Hans -Joachim Hesp (* 1938).

From 1977 to 2003 Metzger and Riehn gave the musicological series music concepts in Munich " edition text kritik " out; for this they received in 1984 the German Critics' Prize. Your life's work they put between 2004 and 2010 in the series querstand. musical concepts continue. Also in the edition text kritik they edited the two volumes of compositions by Adorno.

1987 had Riehn and Metzger as chief dramaturge at the Frankfurt Opera under Gary Bertini, where she initiated the composition and performance of the " Euro Pera 1 & 2 " by John Cage.

Compositions

  • Chants de Maldoror. Electronic composition, realized in Utrecht
  • Nothing - as the children play an adult. String Trio (UA from the trio recherche, Konstanz 2002)
  • The Song of the Earth by Gustav Mahler, arranged for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg, completed by Rainer Riehn (UA by Ensemble Musica Negativa, Toblach 1983)
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