'Write the moment': two ways of dealing with Wolfgang Rihm 1

Musical Times | October 1, 2004| | Copyright

It is important for me to write the moment that is truly hic et mine, here and now, and also the moment between the two.1

How TO DEAL WITH WOLFGANG RiHM? You don't have to, but in the room of contemporary European composition he 's something of the elephant. In Germany alone he gets hundreds of performances a year and, subsequently, a great deal of press. But you have to think proportionately about this: Rihm gives as much as he gets. By the time he turned 50 in 2002, he had over 400 scores and 1ooo published pages of words to his name. He has been celebrated for a miraculous Produktivkraft, ...

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