Rolf Riehm

Born in Saarbrücken in 1937, died in 2026; Rolf Riehm first studied school music in Frankfurt am Main and from 1958 composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg. He then worked as a solo oboist, in 1966 among other places at the Internationale Ferienkurse in Darmstadt, and was a co-founder of the Frankfurter Vereinigung für Musik, which existed from 1964 to 1970. From 1968 he taught at the Rheinische Musikschule Köln and until 1972 belonged there to the Gruppe 8 of Cologne composers; in 1968 he received the Premio Marzotto per la Musica and a fellowship of the Villa Massimo in Rome. From 1974 to 2000 he was professor of composition and music theory at the Musikhochschule Frankfurt am Main, from 1976 to 1981 a member of the Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester Frankfurt. In 1992 he was awarded the Kunstpreis des Saarlandes, in 2002 the Paul-Hindemith-Preis der Stadt Hanau. He was a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Five albums connect him with Cybele and trace his work from 1998 to 2008. The Compositions for Guitar were recorded in 1999 by Harald Lillmeyer and Susanne Hilker in the Kleiner Sendesaal of the WDR-Funkhaus Köln; on without compression (1998) he is represented with the Trio Diritto. The audio piece Machandelboom after the fairy tale of the Gebrüder Grimm (2003) was made as a co-production with the WDR, with Heiner Goebbels and Alfred Harth. The Orchestral Works (2005) were played by the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Saarbrücken under Hans Zender and the Ensemble Oriol under Sebastian Gottschick. The album aprikosenbäume gibt es, aprikosenbäume gibt es (2008) with the Ensemble ascolta, the Hilliard Ensemble and the Ensemble recherche appeared on the Bestenliste 1/2009 of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.