RIP #wolfgangrihm
Still difficult to process that the person, whose music brought me into Avant-garde at all, left.
Remembering Wolfgang Rihm means to remember not only a composer, who shaped his time more than this time shaped him, but who was not only of deepest artistic, but human warmth and empathy. How many leading artists would write a letter to some 19 year old school boy, who fell sick for his entrance exams. "Rest, go for walks, read, take a breath. Nothing rushes! Cordially. Your Wolfgang Rihm"
It is this humanism, serving the musical endeavor not only, but profound artistry bringing more than great art, but inexhaustible empathy to the individual. This is how I will remember Wolfgang Rihm, how his music will survive, because his music is rooted in and transformed to the highest through a humane perspective in the best sense.
4 Monaten ago