Universal Edition - Wolfgang Rihm – Grave | in memoriam Thomas Kakuska | for string quartet

Wolfgang Rihm
*13.03.1952

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    Rihm: Pater noster for mixed choir a cappella
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    Wolfgang Rihm at 60
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    Rihm: Jakob Lenz in London
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    Rihm: World première Nähe fern 3
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    Rihm@60 – The String Quartets in Paris
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    Rihm: Das Gehege in Amsterdam
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    Rihm: Lichtes Spiel in Paris and London
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    Rihm: New work for baritone and ensemble
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    Rihm: New work for ensemble
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    Rihm: World première of Nähe fern 2
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    Orchestral music by Wolfgang Rihm
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    BBC Proms 2011
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    Rihm: New work for soprano and orchestra
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    Wolfgang Rihm: Two national premières
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    World première of Rihm’s ‘Dyade’
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    Wolfgang Rihm on Dutch music cuts
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    Golden Lion for Wolfgang Rihm's lifetime achievement
    Golden Lion for Wolfgang Rihm's lifetime achievement
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    World première of Wolfgang Rihm's opera fantasy Dionysos
    World première of Wolfgang Rihm's opera fantasy Dionysos
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Wolfgang Rihm
Grave | in memoriam Thomas Kakuska | for string quartet

Work Details
Year of composition: 2005
Subtitle: in memoriam Thomas Kakuska
Scored for: for string quartet
Composer: Wolfgang Rihm
Duration (min): 15
Dedication: dem Alban-Berg-Quartett

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World Première
Location: Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal Wien / Austria
Date: 28.01.2007
Orchestra: Alban Berg Quartett
Work Introduction

Wolfgang Rihm first wrote a work for the Alban Berg Quartet as early as 1981, while still an aspiring composer under thirty. His String Quartet No 4 astonished audiences at that time with its wealth of elements firmly grounded in the tradition of the genre, though not for a single bar did it [...]

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