{"id":14254,"date":"2024-08-05T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2024-08-04T19:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:25:54","slug":"german-contemporary-music-composer-wolfgang-rihm-dies-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/08\/05\/german-contemporary-music-composer-wolfgang-rihm-dies-72\/","title":{"rendered":"German Contemporary Music Composer Wolfgang Rihm Dies At 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14255\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm.png\" alt=\"Wolfgang Rihm\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm.png 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm-768x402.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolfgang Rihm (Photo: Ensemble C Barr\u00e9 Direction S\u00e9bastien Boin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wolfgang Rihm, Germany\u2019s most-performed contemporary music composer, died last week of unspecified causes. Rihm composed over 500 works of classical music.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The update:<\/strong> Last week, the music publisher Universal Editions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universaledition.com\/en\/News\/Mourning-for-Wolfgang-Rihm\/\">announced the death<\/a> of the German composer and scholar Wolfgang Rihm at the age of 72. Rihm\u2019s death was also immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C97PqoUs0Pq\/?igsh=MTFqZWpucHRsamlybw==\">announced on social media<\/a> by the Berlin Philharmonic, for whom Rihm was the 2024\/2025 composer-in-residence. The cause of Rihm\u2019s death remains unreported at this time, although he had been treated for cancer since 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch-up:<\/strong> Wolfgang Rihm was born in Karlsruhe in 1952. An important voice in Germany following WWII, Rihm\u2019s work gravitated towards historical allusion and emotional expressionism. <a href=\"https:\/\/www-oxfordmusiconline-com.proxy3.library.mcgill.ca\/grovemusic\/display\/10.1093\/gmo\/9781561592630.001.0001\/omo-9781561592630-e-0000046321\">He differentiated himself<\/a> from the pre-War, Second Viennese School composers that explored structuralist concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Wolfgang Rihm has been described as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/29\/arts\/music\/wolfgang-rihm-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=c-cb\">one of the most prolific voices in classical music<\/a> and composed over 500 works. His recent prizes included the 2014 Robert Schumann Prize for Poetry and Music, a lifetime achievement award from the Venice Biennale, and the 2003 Ernest von Siemens Music Prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never heard Rihm?<\/strong> Check out his riveting settings of Shakespeare\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d1ujmzFHJMg\">Ophelia\u2019s songs<\/a> or Anne-Sofie Mutter and the Chicago Symphony playing his \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oVKvj4_E1kM\">Gesungene Zeit<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolfgang Rihm, Germany\u2019s most-performed contemporary music composer, died last week of unspecified causes. Rihm composed over 500 works of classical music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":14255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,193,3,284],"tags":[451],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/08\/Wolfgang-Rihm.png","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14260,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/14260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}