Rolf Riehm

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Rolf Riehm (born June 15, 1937 in Saarbrücken ) is a German composer .

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Rolf Riehm is the son of the organist Karl Riehm and the piano teacher Elly Riehm. After graduating from high school, he studied musicology for a year at the Goethe University in Frankfurt and from 1958 to 1961 oboe and school music at the Frankfurt University of Music . This was followed by a study of composition in the master class of Wolfgang Fortner at the Freiburg University of Music . In 1968 he was awarded the Premio Marzotto for music and received a grant from the Villa Massimo for a stay in Rome.

Riehm initially worked as a solo oboist and briefly in school. From 1968 he worked as a lecturer at the Rheinische Musikschule Köln and until 1972 was a member of Gruppe 8 Köln , an association of composers. From 1974 to 1981 he held a professorship for composition and composition at the Frankfurt University of Music.

Riehm was a co-founder of the Frankfurt Music Association, which existed from 1964 to 1970 . From 1976 to 1981 he was a member of the so -called left-wing radical wind orchestra . He went on concert tours and gave lectures and workshops in Europe, America and Japan.

Riehm has been a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts since 2010 . In 2014 an edition of his writings was published under the title Rolf Riehm / Texts .

The Riehm archive of the Akademie der Künste Berlin stores all work diaries, preliminary work, sketches and fair copies of Riehm's works, including early works.

Artistic style

The journalist Bernd Leukert describes Riehm as an idiosyncratic artist who sees himself as a political person. Riehm deliberately disregards older or younger compositional traditions, but uses the whole range of musical expressions in a sometimes radical way. His compositions are far from all systematic, and whatever he composes develops into "explosive conglomerates" that are neither aesthetically nor "politically correct" in terms of sound.

Awards

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Musical theater

Audio piece

  • Machandelboom , with Alfred Harth , Heiner Goebbels , Christoph Anders, 1981/82
  • Der Main (on the LP "Es prevailing Uhu im Land" produced by Alfred Harth, JAPO 1980)
  • Yours Blossoms of Germany , 1988

Orchestral works

  • The earth is a bowl of dark gold. Two Bach paraphrases for soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra, 1966/1999
  • He, tres doulz roussignol joly based on old French ballads and Virelais , 1978
  • Dances from Frankfurt , 1980
  • The Silence of the Sirens for soprano, tenor, orchestra and electronic feeds, 1987
  • Berceuse, 1989
  • Les Chants de la Revolution sont des Chants de l'Amour for soprano, orchestra and electronic playback, 1989/1998
  • Schubert parts warehouse for string orchestra, 1989
  • Shifting Violin Concerto, 1995
  • Restoring the Death of Orpheus accordion concert, 2000
  • Fremdling, rede - Ballad Furor Odysseus for mezzo-soprano, speaker and orchestra, 2002
  • The terribly powerful children for coloratura soprano and large ensemble, 2003
  • You, my and a nefarious father's children for soprano, speaker (via tape) and orchestra, 2006
  • Au bord d'une source for tenor recorder, orchestra and tapes, 2006
  • Who are these children for piano, large orchestra and tapes, 2009
  • Die Tode des Orpheus for countertenor and orchestra, 2017

Ensemble music

  • A summer evening at Lindleinsee for violin, violoncello, piano and tapes, 1976
  • Tempo strozzato for string quartet, 1978
  • “I think a lot.” / Mr. President / pizz / 13 for viola, violoncello and double bass, 1987
  • Uncertain Melody for eight instruments, 1989
  • Gracieusement for viola, violoncello and double bass, 1990
  • Ahi bocca, ahi lingua for four male voices, 1994
  • Double Distant Counterpoint (JS Bach, Kunst der Fuge, Contrapunctus XI ) for large ensemble and keyboard, 1994
  • Sarca - il fiume Sarca for 7 wind instruments and double bass, 1995
  • Sleep, Sleep, John Donne, Sleep Deeply and Don't Torment Yourself for Violin, Bass Clarinet, Accordion, Keyboard, 1997
  • Hawking for piano, bass drum and six instruments, 1998
  • FIORETTI Within My Bosom for clarinet, violoncello and piano, 2000
  • Short Message Piece for flute and tenor recorder, 2001
  • Adieu, Marie, mon amour - Three love songs in death for viola and accordion, 2002
  • There are apricot trees, there are apricot trees for double bass clarinet, violin, trumpet, cello, trombone and feeds, 2004
  • No Velvet Mute For Lullabies for four trombones, 2005
  • The thread is broken for seven instrumentalists, 2005
  • There were birds in the air, fish for piano and eight instruments in the water , 2006
  • Lenz in Moscow for trombone, guitar, violoncello, piano, two percussionists and tapes, 2011
  • Pasolini in Ostia for soprano, piano, violoncello and percussion, 2012
  • The Asra for soprano and piano, 2014
  • Basar Aleppo or Die Straße nach Tyros sound scenes for tenor saxophone, marimbaphone, piano and playbacks, 2015
  • Adieu, sirènes for mezzo-soprano, 2 violoncellos, 2 trumpets, 2015

Solo music

  • Unusuals for oboe, 1964
  • Common items for alto recorder, 1972
  • Notturno for the mournfully dying for guitar, 1977
  • Don't cry, mummy isn't here anyway - memories of a temptingly morbid summer for viola, 1982
  • Scheherazade for accordion, 1990
  • Toccata Orpheus for guitar, 1990
  • Weeds in Ophelia's Hair for treble recorder, 1991
  • Push Pull for accordion, 1995
  • Hamamuth - City of Angels for piano, 2005
  • Oh, Queen for Violoncello, 2005
  • Tone for Tone (White Streets of Babylon) for double bass clarinet, 2007
  • Im Nachtigallental for violoncello, 2007
  • This is how it is for double bass clarinet, 2015
  • Ciao, carissimo Claudio or Die Steel Drums von San Marco for piano and playback, 2017

Discography (selection)

  • The Tears of the Glacier (1998), col legno
  • Compositions for guitar , Cybele 260.601 cybele.de
  • Documentation of the Witten Days for New Chamber Music 1997 , Kulturforum Witten / WDR Cologne
  • So-called radical left-wing wind orchestra , Trikont (1976–1981)
  • Works from 1977–1993 - Radio Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Saarbrücken, conducted by Michael Gielen and Marcello Viotti, the guitarists Wilhelm Bruck and Theodor Ross and the Saarbrücken String Quartet. Talking Music TalkM 1006
  • Machandelboom , Cybele SACD 960.501 cybele.de
  • The silence of the sirens / dances from Frankfurt , hrMedia
  • Orchestral works: He, très doulz roussignol joly, Schubert Teilelager, The earth is a bowl of dark gold , Cybele 860.401 cybele.de
  • Without Compression , Cybele 260.501 cybele.de
  • Weeds in Ophelia's Hair , Bayer Records
  • There are apricot trees, there are apricot trees (Theo Nabicht, ensemble ascolta) and two other works: ahi bocca, ahi lingua (Hilliard Ensemble) and sleep, sleep, John donne, sleep deep and do not torment you (ensemble research), Cybele records SACD 860.701
  • Rolf Riehm orchestral works: The Tears of the Glacier , Nuages ​​immortels or Focusing on Solos (Medea in Avignon) and Berceuse , SWR Sinfonie Orchester, Michael Gielen, Hans Zender, telos music records TLS 128
  • Rolf Riehm : Who are these children , Hamamuth City of Angels , Nicolas Hodges, Piano, SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg, Beat Furrer, WERGO 6755 2
  • Rolf Riehm : Lenz in Moscow , Im Nachtigallental , tone for tone (white streets of Babylon) , Au bord d'une source , Ensemble Ascolta, Erik Borgir, Theo Nabicht, Jeremias Schwarzer, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sian Edwards, WERGO 73142
  • Shifting, Guy Braunstein, violin, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, conductor Dennis Russell Davis, Archipel Remix , WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, conductor Peter Rundel, WERGO 7357 2

literature

  • Rolf Riehm: Texts. Published by Marion Saxer (= Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ). Schott, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7957-0868-9 .
  • Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich (Ed.): In other rooms - The composer Rolf Riehm (= Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ). Schott, Mainz 2015, ISBN 978-3-7957-0896-2 .
  • Ulrich Tadday (Ed.): Rolf Riehm (= music concepts , issue 182). edition text + kritik, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-708-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Munzinger biography: Rolf Riehm. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f SWR Classic: Rolf Riehm. In: swr.de. November 24, 2006, accessed May 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Rolf Riehm: Texts. Published by Marion Saxer (= Edition Neue Zeitschrift für Musik ). Schott, Mainz 2014, ISBN 978-3-7957-0868-9 .
  4. ↑ Heinz Josef Herbort: An even more terrible weapon. In: The time . October 14, 1994, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Between the island of Kirke and Ithaka beckon murder singers. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . September 16, 2014, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Riehm, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken