HELMUT LACHENMANN AVANT LP LUIGI NONO-KAGEL-HESPOS-NWW

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HELMUT LACHENMANN

 GRAN TORSO / GUERO / PRESSION LP

Edition RZ

Highly recommended album from german composer Helmut Lachenmann, a student of Luigi Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Works close to those of Mauricio Kagel or Hans-Joachim Hespos.

Some info on the release:  Highly recommended album from german composer Helmut Lachenmann, released by the german label Edition RZ. Could easily be on the TAS list of audiophile recordings. Sparse, minimal but sometimes heavy works from 1969-1978 by german composer Helmut Lachenmann (*1935), slow-motion instrumental breathing, plucking and string-scraping. Full of experimental techniques and heavy experimentations.

Helmut Lachenmann, showing an early aptitude for music, he was already composing in his teens. He studied piano with Jürgen Uhde and composition and theory with Johann Nepomuk David at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule from 1955 to 1958 and was the first private student of the Italian composer Luigi Nono in Venice from 1958 to 1960. He also worked briefly at the electronic music studio at the University of Ghent in 1965, composing his only published tape piece Szenario during that period, but thereafter focused almost exclusively on purely instrumental music.

Lachenmann has referred to his compositions as musique concrète instrumentale, implying a musical language that embraces the entire sound-world made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. According to the composer, this is music in which the sound events are chosen and organized so that the manner in which they are generated is at least as important as the resultant acoustic qualities themselves. Consequently those qualities, such as timbre, volume, etc., do not produce sounds for their own sake, but describe or denote the concrete situation: listening, you hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out, you hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered. His music is therefore primarily derived from the most basic of sounds, which through processes of amplification serve as the bases for extended works. His scores place enormous demands on performers, due to the plethora of techniques that he has invented for wind, brass and string instruments.

He has regularly lectured at Darmstadt since 1978 and important among his many positions as a teacher was his term as professor of composition at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule from 1981 to 1999. Among his students are Mark Andre, Alvaro Carlevaro, Clemens Gadenstätter, Harald Muenz, Manuel Hidalgo, Shigeru Kan-no, Juliane Klein, Wolfram G. Schurig, Kunsu Shim and Stefan Streich. He is also noted for his many articles, essays and lectures, many of which appear in Musik als existentielle Erfahrung (Music as Existential Experience). Lachenmann was awarded with many distinguished prizes such as the Bach-prize of Hamburg (Bach-Preis der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg) in 1972 and the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 1997.

Helmut Lachenmann belongs to the great avant-garde/experimental composers "wave" that appeared in Europe in the 60's/70's/80's with main representators composers like Hans Werner Henze, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Mauricio Kagel and Salvatore Sciarrino, Heinz Holliger, Brian Ferneyhough, and Nicolaus A. Huber, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur or more widely Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, Bruno Maderna, Jani Christou, Iannis Xenakis and of course Pendercki.

Condition: Vinyl and cover lie in mint condition, this is an unplayed stock copy kept for archival purposes.

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