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Wolfgang Rihm

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Abkehr (1)
Abschiedsmarsch (1)
Aestimatus sum (1)
Akt und Tag (1)
Am Horizont (1)
An meine Schwester (1)
Antlitz (2)
Aria/Araidne: Szenarie for soprano and chamber orchestra (1)
Auf einem anderen Blatt (1)
Bann, Nachtschwarmerei (Spells, Night dreams) (1)
Brahmsliebewalzer (2)
Caligaverunt oculi mei (1)
Cantus firmus 'Music in memoriam Luigi Nono' (1)
Canzona (1)
Chiffre I, for piano and 7 instruments (1)
Chiffre IV for bass clarinet, violin and piano (1)
Coll'arco (2)
Concerto for piano and 8 instruments (1)
Contemplatio (1)
Das Gehege (1)
Das Rot (2)
Deploration (1)
Der Einsamste (1)
Deus Passus, 'St Luke Passion' (1)
Die Hamletmaschine (1)
Dritte Musik (1)
Dyade for violin and double bass (1)
Ende der Handschrift (1)
Epilog for string quintet (1)
Ernster Gesang (2)
Erscheinung (1)
Et Lux (1)
Fantasie for organ (1)
Fantasies (3) (1)
Fetzen, for accordion and string quartet (1)
Frage (1)
Fremde Szenen (1)
Gedicht des Malers (Poem of the Painter): Concerto for violin and orchestra (1)
Gedichte (2) von Marina Zwetajewa (1)
Gedichte (3) by Monique Thone (1)
Gedichte (4) aus 'Atemwende' (1)
Gedichte (4) fur Singstimme & Orchester (Rilke) (1)
Gedichte (6) von Friedrich Nietzsche (2)
Gegenstuck (1)
Gejagte Form (1)
Gesange, op.1 (excerpts) (1)
Gesange, op.1 (1)
Geste zu Vedova for string quartet (1)
Gesungene Zeit (2)
Grat for solo cello (1)
Grat (1)
Grave 'in memoriam Thomas Kakuska' for string quartet (1)
Hekton (1)
Holderlin-Gedichte (3) (2)
Ich kenn' ein winderschones Kind (1)
In Verbundenheit (1)
In nuce (1)
Interscriptum: Duo for string quartet and piano (2)
Jagden und Formen (1)
Jakob Lenz (1)
Klavierstuck no.1, op.8a (2)
Klavierstuck no.2, op.8b (2)
Klavierstuck no.3 (1)
Klavierstuck no.4 (2)
Klavierstuck no.5 'Tombeau' (4)
Klavierstuck no.6 'Bagatellen' (2)
Klavierstuck no.7 (3)
Kleine Schwingungen (2) (1)
Konzert in einem Satz (Concerto in one movement) (1)
La musique creuse le ciel (1)
Landler (2)
Lenz-Fragmente (2)
Lichtes Spiel (1)
Lichtzwang (1)
Lied ohne Worte (1)
Male ube Male 2 (1)
Marsyas (1)
Mehrere Kurze Walzer (19) for piano four hands (1)
Mit geschlossenem Mund (1)
Nachstudie (2)
Neue Alexanderlieder (1)
Oedipus (2)
Ophelia Sings (2)
Passions-Texte (7) (3)
Phantom und Eskapade (2)
Quartettstudie (2)
Quo me rapis (1)
Recessit pastor noster (1)
Rembrandts Ochse, plotzlich im Louvre (1)
Reminiszenz Triptychon und Spruch in memoriam Hans Henny Jahnn (2)
Requiem-Strophen (Requiem Verses) (2)
Ricercare 'Music in memoriam Luigi Nono' (2) (1)
Schattenstuck: tone poem for orchestra (1)
Seraphin-Sphare (2)
Seraphin - Stimmen (1)
Siebengestalt, for organ and tamtam (1)
Silence to be beaten 'Chiffre II' (2)
Sine nomine (1)
Sinfoniae I: Mass for organ (1)
Sostenuto (1)
Sound As Will for trumpet and ensemble (1)
Spate Gedichte (4) von Friedrich Ruckert (1)
Sphare nach Studie (1)
Sphare um Spare for ensemble (1)
Sphare um Sphare (1)
Stabat Mater for baritone and viola (1)
String Quartet (1968) (1)
String Quartet in G minor (1)
String Quartet no.1, op.2 (1)
String Quartet no.2, op.10 (1)
String Quartet no.3 'Im Innersten' (1)
String Quartet no.4 (2)
String Quartet no.9 'Quartettsatz' (1)
String Quartet no.10 (1)
String Quartet no.11 (1)
String Quartet no.12 (1)
String Trio, op.9 (1)
String Trio no.2 (1)
String quartet (1)
Two Other Movements (1)
Uber-Schrift (1)
Uber die Linie II (1)
Uber die Linie VII (2)
Verborgene Formen (1)
Vermischter Traum (1)
Verschwundene Worte (1)
Vier Male: pieces for clarinet in A (1)
Violin Sonata (1)
Vorspiele (3) zu einer Insel (1)
Will Sound (1)
Wolfli-Liederbuch (1)
Wortlos (2)
Zwiesprache (1)
duomonolog for violin and cello (1)
von weit ('Antlitz' version for cello and piano) (2)

Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952 in Karlsruhe) is a German composer.

Rihm's early work, combining contemporary techniques with the emotional volatility of Mahler and of Schoenberg's early expressionist period, was regarded by many as a revolt against the avant-garde generation of Boulez, Stockhausen (with whom he studied in 1972–73), and others, and led to a large number of commissions in the following years. In the late 1970s and early 1980s his name was associated with the movement called New Simplicity. His work still continues to plough expressionist furrows, though the influence of Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann and Morton Feldman, amongst others, has affected his style significantly.

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