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Rainer Riehn (12 November 1941 – 9 June 2015[1]) was a German composer and conductor, and a co-editor of music theory magazines.

Riehn was born in Danzig, Germany (modern Gdańsk, Poland) studied music theory in Mainz, Zürich, and Berlin and composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Utrecht.[2] He met the music theorist Heinz-Klaus Metzger at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the summer of 1965.[1] In 1968 he founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa,[3] in 1977 the series Musik-Konzepte, which he published until 2003 (together with Heinz-Klaus Metzger).[4] In 1984 Metzger and Riehn received the Deutscher Kritikerpreis as editors of the Musik-Konzepte.[1] In 1987 he was chief dramaturge at the Oper Frankfurt together with Heinz-Klaus Metzger,[4] and initiated the first commission for an opera composition for John Cage (Europeras 1 & 2).[2]

Works

• Les Chants de Maldoror,[2][5] electronic composition, realized in Utrecht about a poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont
• Das Lied von der Erde,[6] a work of six songs by Gustav Mahler, arrangement for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schönberg, finished by Rainer Riehn (premiere by Ensemble Musica Negativa, Toblach 1983)
• nichts – als das Kinderspiel eines Erwachsenen,[2] string trio (premiere by trio recherche, Konstanz 2002)

References

External links

• Website of Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (in German)

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Rainer Riehn (* 12. November 1941 in Danzig; † 9. Juni 2015 in Berlin)[1] war ein deutscher Komponist und Dirigent sowie Mitherausgeber musikwissenschaftlicher Zeitschriften.

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