Helmut Lachenmann

Der Kontrabassist Caleb Salgado hat die Bearbeitung meines Cellostücks Pression in so subtiler, dem ursprünglichen Notentext absolut treu folgender Form für sein Instrument vorgenommen, dass das Resul...

Bei Air hatten wir mit dem Ensemble Modern Orchestra, dem Dirigenten Brad Lubman und Helmut Lachenmann ein durch langjährige Zusammenarbeit eingespieltes Team vor der Kamera. Die ausführlichen Teilpro...

Obwohl die Variationen vorwiegend von rationalen Kompositionsmitteln in Anlehnung an Reihentechniken Schönbergs und des späten Strawinsky geprägt sind, ist in ihnen das spielerische musikantische Elem...

Wiegenmusik (= "Cradle Music", not "Cradle Song") is determined by a structure of multifariously branching arpeggio figures, often drawn tightly together. After the compressions of the opening, it com...

Helmut Lachenmann wrote his Toccatina for the volume 'Studien zum Spielen Neuer Musik für Violine' (EB 8356) edited by Igor Ozim and published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1986. No one could foresee back...

Experience a fascinating masterpiece of contemporary chamber music with String Quartet No. 3 'Grido'. Following its celebrated world premiere in Melbourne on November 2, 2001, the piece captivates lis...

Die DVD enthält die BR-Alpha-Sendungen zu den vier Werken Helmut Lachenmanns sowie die komplette Aufzeichnung der musica- viva-Aufführung vom 24. Oktober 2003 in der Lukaskirche München. Im Datenteil...

The individual DVDs are as varied as the various circumstances: With the camera, we accompanied some orchestras for several days, with others the time and hence our film 'yield' was more limited. Some...

The individual DVDs are as varied as the various circumstances: With the camera, we accompanied some orchestras for several days, with others the time and hence our film 'yield' was more limited. Some...

The individual DVDs are as varied as the various circumstances: With the camera, we accompanied some orchestras for several days, with others the time and hence our film 'yield' was more limited. Some...

With 'Accanto' we were fortunate in being able to film sectional rehearsals with Helmut Lachenmann for 10 hours - resulting in six extensive films, mostly in English, dealing with the individual instr...

Helmut Lachenmann gilt vielen sachkundigen Beobachtern als der bedeutendste Komponist seiner Generation nicht nur in Deutschland. 'Seine Musik gehört zur ausdrucksvollsten, vielschichtigsten - und dad...

UA Baden-Baden, 3. Dezember 1977

The typical aura attached to the guitar as a folk and art instrument encompasses the primitive as well as the highly sensitive, intimate, and collective. It also includes aspects that can be precisely...

Experience "Marche fatale", a thrilling and expressive piece for solo piano that both challenges and captivates performers. This powerful composition stands out with its dramatic contrasts, driving rh...

Echo Andante, nach meiner Rückkehr vom Studienaufenthalt bei Luigi Nono in Venedig komponiert, von mir selbst 1962 in Darmstadt uraufgeführt, bedeutet - trotz anderer früherer Arbeiten, die ich nicht...

Trio fluido, noch vor dem Schlagzeugsolostück Intérieur I, meinem 'Opus 1', entstanden, gehört einer Schaffensphase an, die noch streng strukturalistisch geprägt war, in der also ausschließlich am aku...

temA was written in the summer of 1968. In spite of Ligeti's 'Aventures' it may be considered one of the first compositions in which the breathing plays a role as an accoustically transmitted energy p...

Like my other compositions from this period, Dal niente is also indebted from a technical perspective to the idea of a musique concrète instrumentale, in which all of the sounds point away from themse...

Marche fatale is a incautiously daring escapade that may annoy the fans of my compositions more than my earlier works, many of which have prevailed only after scandals at their world premieres. My Mar...

My own new orchestral composition has the title 'WRITING'. The practical action of writing, as a mechanical action by hand, pen, brush, on a surface (paper, parchment, stone, etc.), triggered and cont...

Partitur und Stimmen mit 'Particell' Die Partitur enthält auf den unteren Systemen eine Particell-Notation. Diese Zusammenfassung ist auch im Stimmenmaterial enthalten, mit dem das komplexe Werk erstm...