Helmut Lachenmann’s compositions probably aren’t for everyone. The composer even likened a concert of his music to thrill seeking. “In Switzerland, people pay 500 euros just to make bungee jumping,” ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. All sorts of new music are picked up by the London music colleges before professionals such as the London ...
From Melissa Smey, Executive Director of Miller Theatre: "Helmut Lachenmann is one of my favorite composers. His string quartets invite us to listen differently — to sound, to texture, and even ...
Helmut Lachenmann is one of the most influential contemporary German composers and gained international recognition for his reorientation of contemporary composition. Born in Stuttgart in 1935, he ...
'Helmut Lachenmann's music is as much therapy as art, reacquainting musicians with their instruments, audiences with their ears. And it delivers this therapy through discovery.' Who knew that so much ...
In Germany, he is often referred to as “Professor Helmut Lachenmann.” He is 73, lanky, bearded. A student of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is perhaps the foremost representative of the ...
In Germany, he is often referred to as “Professor Helmut Lachenmann.” He is 73, lanky, bearded. A student of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen, he is perhaps the foremost representative of the ...
When I started writing about music 15 years ago, Helmut Lachenmann felt like more of a cause than a composer – the giddy dream that if only his ideas could catch on at home, the rearguard instincts ...