LACHENMANN, HELMUT

1935–, German composer, b. Stuttgart. One of the most influential European composers of the late 20th and early 21st cents., he studied in Venice with Luigi Nono (1958–60) and at Cologne (1963). Beginning in the late 1960s, Lachenmann explored a new and innovative musical language. In works such as temA (1968), for flute, voice, and cello, and Air (1969), for orchestra and percussion soloist, he used instruments and voices unconventionally, producing new sounds and sound combinations in which all instruments were given equal weight. Lachenmann questions past musical assumptions in his many postserialist compositions and in his varied musical writings. Other works include the string quartet Gran Torso (1972), Mouvement (vor der Estarrung) (1984) for chamber orchestra, Serynade (2000) for piano, and the opera The Little Match Girl (2001). A well-known teacher, Lachenmann has been a mentor to many important younger composers.

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books on: Lachenmann Helmut  - 5 results

 
 
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Feminist Aesthetics in Music
Book by Sally Macarthur; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Feminism And Music, Music--Philosophy And Aesthetics
...112-13, 126-27 n.37, 127 n.38, 152, 156, 176-77 Kurtak, Georgy, 139-40 La Barbara, Joan, 13 3 Lachenmann, Helmut, 138-39 Lang, Josephine, 36 Langer, Susanne, 83 Language: feminist, 152; Henderson's Stubble, 162...
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Music of the Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde: A Biocritical Sourcebook
Book by Larry Sitsky; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Avant-Garde (Music), Composers--Biography, Music--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Wertungsforschung 24. Vienna: Universal Edition. Kropfinger, Klaus. 1988. Luigi Nono . Berlin: Berliner Festspiele. Lachenmann, Helmut. 1971. Luigi Nono oder Ruckblick auf die serielle Musik. Melos 36:225 230. Ligeti, Gyorgy. 1960. Wandlungen...
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Modern Music and After
Book by Paul Griffiths; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Music--20th Century--History And Criticism
...Quartet 282 Twelve Microludes 284 , 286 Twenty-Four Antiphonae 284 Kurtz, Michael 159 Kutter, Markus 192 -3 Lachenmann, Helmut 198 -9, 264 -5 Ausklang 264 -5 Gran Torso 198 Pression 198 -9, 265 Reigen seliger Geister 265 Schwankungen...
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The World of Women in Classical Music
Book by Anne K. Gray; Seven Locks, 2007
Subjects: Instrumentalists, Women Composers, Women Conductors (Music), Women Musicians, Women Singers
...participated in compositional courses given by Sofia Gubaidulina, Brian Ferneyhough, Maurice Jarrell, Klaus Huber, Helmut Lachenmann, Hanspeter Kyburz and Pascal Dusapin, plus training in computer music at IRCAM in Paris. Her works for chamber...
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A Philosophy of Hope: Josef Pieper and the Contemporary Debate on Hope
Book by Bernard N. Schumacher, D. C. Schindler; Fordham University Press, 2003
Subjects: Hope, Pieper, Josef--1904-
...Krauth, Lothar, 260, 261, 263 Kriiger, Gerhard, 267 Kuhn, Helmut, 240, 285 Kuhn, Hermann, 243, 268, 283, 285 Kunisch, Hermann...Labourdette, Marie-Michel, 132, 285 Lachelier, Jules, 53, 285 Lachenmann, Hans, 285


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journal articles on: Lachenmann Helmut  - 5 results

 
 
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Special Journal Issues
Journal article by Tracey Rudnick; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 62, 2005
...23, nos. 3-4 (September-December 2004): Helmut Lachenmann-Inward Beauty. This issue includes background information...no. 1 (February 2005): continues the focus on Lachenmann. Current Musicology 75 (Spring 2003): Festschrift...
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The Edinburgh Festival 2004: Cutting Edges & Dull Blades
Journal article by Glenn Loney; Western European Stages, Vol. 16, 2004
Subjects: Artistic directors, Arts festivals, Edinburgh Scotland, McMaster, Brian, Theater, Theater criticism
...represented the fiercely poetic Socialist women. Designer Helmut Brade created some impressive stage-pictures, largely...thunderous musical style-which has echoes of the music of Helmut Lachenmann, heard the same week in Usher Hall-was helped at...
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Colloquy/débat: Apropos Aesthetic Autonomy
Journal article by Friedemann Sallis; Canadian University Music Review, Vol. 24, 2003
Subjects: Aesthetics, Canada, Canadian culture, Composers, Harley, James, Laplante, Chantal, Musicology
...gratification in the grey conformity of the international mass-media marketplace. Others like Giacinto Scelsi, Helmut Lachenmann and Galina Ustvolskaja, will shun it and attempt to go another way. Some, like Robert Ashley and John Zorn will...
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Professional Notices
Journal article; Marvels & Tales, Vol. 22, 2008
Subjects: Colleges & universities, Conferences, Fairy tales
...1970s The fairy tale after postmodernism The fairy tale and contemporary opera (composers such as Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann, and John Woolrich) The fairy tale and contemporary visual art (artists such as Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, Vanessa...
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New Periodicals
Journal article by Erin Mayhood; Music Library Association. Notes, Vol. 63, 2006
...Zeitschrift fur Musik. Vol. 167, no. 1 (January-February 2006): Special issue devoted to German composer Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935). 19th Century Music. Vol. 29, no. 1 (Summer 2005): special feature issue on Schubert and Adorno...


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magazine articles on: Lachenmann Helmut  - 12 results

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Perspectives on York Holler: All Contradictions Reconciled?
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 139, Autumn 1998
...fascinatingly partisan writings on Helmut Lachenmann, who by date of birth (1935...for the sake of argument - Lachenmann) as they are from the more progressive...in very different ways) by Lachenmann or Rihm. Instead, the textural...
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - Highlights
Magazine article by John Warnaby; Musical Opinion, Vol. 129, January 2006
...Steinitz introduced the music of Helmut Lachenmann to British audiences. After a...an outstanding interpretation of Helmut Lachenmanns second String Quartet...projects. Concenini suggested Lachenmann may be entering a slightly retrospective...
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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Magazine article by John Warnaby; Musical Opinion, Vol. 127, March 2004
...two quartets were heard alongside Helmut Lachenmanns Third Quartet, which...on 26 November was a portrait of Helmut Oehring, featuring five of his...world to that made familiar by Helmut Lachenmann. However, Ayres aesthetic standpoint...
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Dendritic Designs: Harrison Birtwistle's String Quartet: the Tree of Strings
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 152, Autumn 2011
Subjects: Modernism, Music, Oral tradition, Trees
...world of classical euphony - as, archetypally, in Glucks Dance of the blessed spirits so memorably traduced by Helmut Lachenmann in his Second String Quartet (1989) - and less intransigendy evoked by those places in Birtwistle where the prospect...
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Problems of Reference: Celebrating 2004
Magazine article by Arnold Whittall; Musical Times, Vol. 145, Autumn 2004
Subjects: Adorno, Theodor W, Anniversaries, Composers, Personal profiles, Schnittke, Alfred, Skalkottas, Nikos
...WWE 2SACD 20600). There have also been significant degrees of homage to him in the work of (most prominently) Helmut Lachenmann, Wolfgang Rihm and Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as in younger composers like Olga Neuwirth and Rebecca Saunders...
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Stepping Up to the Podium; Christopher Morley Talks to Conductor and Composer Richard Baker as He Prepares for a New Season
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 7, 2010
Subjects: Baker, Richard, Composers, Singers
...of the most internationally renowned composers today - Simon Holt (including a world premiere), Rolf Hind and Helmut Lachenmann. Soloists in the concert will be Rolf Hind himself (piano) and soprano Sarah Leonard. Baker the conductor was...
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Great Chance to Catch the Star Soloists of Tomorrow
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 12, 2006
Subjects: Concerts
...famous names crop up amid the wide range of composers in performance, Joe Cutler, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Helmut Lachenmann and Tansy Davies among them, and there is also the premiere of ...over the garden fence by Conservatoire post...


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encyclopedia articles on: Lachenmann Helmut  - 1 result

 
 
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Lachenmann, Helmut
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LACHENMANN, HELMUT 1935 , German composer, b. Stuttgart...1963). Beginning in the late 1960s, Lachenmann explored a new and innovative musical...instruments were given equal weight. Lachenmann questions past musical assumptions...


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