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b. 1935 German composer Lachenmann studied in his home city of Stuttgart and then with Nono in Venice, soon himself becoming an influential teacher in Europe. While his early works employ serialism, he later developed his own approach, which he called musique concrète instrumentale – using conventional instruments to mimic the effect of electronically produced or manipulated sound. ...

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the expressive directness of pieces such as Grabstein für Stephan (‘Stephen’s Gravestone’, 1989). Recommended Recording: Játékok, Márta & György Kurtág (ECM) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Helmut Lachenmann | Contemporary | Classical ...

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b. 1958 Finnish composer He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and later with Ferneyhough and Lachenmann. He made several visits to IRCAM, the research institute founded by Boulez in Paris, and while electronics no longer feature extensively in his music, his distinctive harmonic language owes much to the experiments in spectral analysis he undertook there. ...

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tend to be viewed as Darmstadt’s heyday, the courses have continued to thrive (biennially from 1970) under such influential teachers as Brian Ferneyhough (b. 1943), Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann (b. 1935). The Politics of the Cold War After World War II, it took the Soviet Union just a few years to consolidate its hold over Eastern Europe. With ...