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Wolfgang Rihm is among the most
influential of European composers born in the decade after World War II.
Rihm is part of a group of composers
who, during the 1970s, effected a paradigm shift in German musical culture,
replacing their predecessors’ essentially intellectual and structuralist
conception of art with one that gave freer rein to emotion and adopted a more
flexible approach to structure.
Highly prolific in vocal and
instrumental composition, he has also created some of the most powerful and
distinctive stage works of the late 20th century.
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