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Wolfgang Rihm

German composer and teacher (1952–2024)

Wolfgang Rihm (German:[ˈvɔlfɡaŋˈʁiːm]; 13 March 1952 – 27 July 2024) was a German composer of contemporary classical music and an academic teacher based in Karlsruhe. He was an influential post-war European composer, as "one of the most original and independent musical voices" there, composing over 500 works including several operas.

The premiere of Rihm's Morphonie for orchestra at the 1974 Donaueschingen Festival won him international recognition. Rihm pursued a freedom of expression, combining avant-garde techniques with emotional individuality. His chamber opera Jakob Lenz was premiered in 1977, exploring the inner conflict of a poet's soul. The premiere of his opera Oedipus at Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1987 was broadcast live and recorded as DVD. When his opera Dionysos was first performed at the Salzburg Festival in 2010, it was voted World Premiere of the Year by Opernwelt. He was commissioned to compose a work for the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, and created the song cycle Reminiszenz whi

The Music World Loses Its
Classical Iconoclast

Nélida Nassar  10.29.2012

Hans Werner Henze passed away at age 86. One of the greatest, most prolific and influential contemporary German composers, he died Saturday in Dresden, where the Semper opera house recently kicked off a tribute to him with a performance of his antiwar drama We Come to the River, produced in collaboration with writer Edward Bond and first performed in London in 1976.

Born 1 July 1926 in Gütersloh, North Rhine-Westphalia, he was the eldest son in a family
of six children. Franz Gebhardt Henze, his father who was a schoolmaster became an enthusiastic convert to Nazism after the family moved to Dünne in 1934. Young Hans retained memories of Franz in Nazi uniform, “roaming drunkenly through the woods with his party cronies, bawling out repulsive songs.” He also had to join the Hitler Youth, which he hated.

Henze heard broadcasts of classical music (especially that of Mozart, whom he worshiped) and enrolled at the state music school of Braunshweig in 1942, where he studied piano, percussion

CUSTOM SOUND IS ALL ABOUT AUTHENTICITY. IT IDENTIFIES STORY AND CREATES A ONE-OF-A KIND EXPERIENCE

DE WILDE WAARD

“De Wilde Waard” (2021) is an award winning wildlife documentary about the Alblasserwaard: a beautiful Dutch peat meadow area, located in the south of the Green Heart of Holland. It’s a place of vast meadows, long ditches, windmills and lots of wild animals. Enthusing and informing people about the surprisingly rich biodiversity of the region and the raise of awareness for the need to protect the present wildlife, forms the plot of the story.

Direction/camera/edit/script: Stijn Philips

Music & sound design: Werner Urban

Voice-over: Menno Bentveld

Direction/camera/edit/script: Stijn Philips

Music & sound design: Werner Urban

Voice-over: Menno Bentveld

– Sacha De Boer | Jury WFFR | Photographer

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