Rolf Riehm

Rolf Riehm is a composer and oboist whose function has mainly been centered in Frankfurt. Riehm examined structure with Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg and produced his debut on the 1966 Darmstadt Celebration playing his single oboe piece Ungebräuchlisches. Nevertheless, he hardly ever allied himself towards the international design of educational serialism, as he’s a highly politics composer who will take inspiration not merely from his instructor Fortner, but also towards the exemplory case of Hanns Eisler aswell. He spent some time working as an organizer of many agitprop-type musical groupings, like the Gruppo 8 (the Band of Eight, a composer’s collective located in Cologne), Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester (The So-named Still left Wing Radicals’ Blowing wind Band), as well as the Frankfurter Vereinigung für Musik (Frankfurt Music Association). In 1974, Riehm had taken permanent home at Frankfurt after agreeing to a position being a structure professor on the Musikhochschule there. Riehm’s best-known function is certainly his musical movie theater piece predicated on the Brothers Grimm, Machandelboom. He in addition has written several parts for orchestra as well as for single musical instruments with interesting and uncommon titles such as for example O Daddy, Don’t Cry, Mummy Isn’t Right here Anyway, yet others. Riehm’s function is certainly eclectic, polystylistic, and, by his very own admission, “politically wrong.”