Rainer Riehn

Rainer Riehn (12 November 1941 – 9 June 2015 He met the music theorist Heinz-Klaus Metzger at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in the summer of 1965. In 1968 he founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa, in 1977 the series Musik-Konzepte, which he published until 2003 (together with Heinz-Klaus Metzger). In 1984 Metzger and Riehn received the Deutscher Kritikerpreis as editors of the Musik-Konzepte. electronic composition, realized in Utrecht about a poetic novel Les Chants de Maldoror by the Comte de Lautréamont

Das Lied von der Erde, a work of six songs by Gustav Mahler, arrangement for chamber ensemble by Arnold Schoenberg, finished by Rainer Riehn (premiere by Ensemble Musica Negativa, Toblach 1983)

nichts – als das Kinderspiel eines Erwachsenen, string trio (premiere by trio recherche, Konstanz 2002)