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Wolfgang Rihm

1952 - Today

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Wolfgang Rihm (born 13 March 1952) is a German composer and academic teacher. He is musical director of the Institute of New Music and Media at the University of Music Karlsruhe and has been composer in residence at the Lucerne Festival and the Salzburg Festival. He was honoured as Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wolfgang Rihm has received more than 157,107 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Wolfgang Rihm is the 997th most popular composer (down from 942nd in 2019), the 3,590th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,410th in 2019) and the 149th most popular German Composer.

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  • 24

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  • 5.59

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  • 2.25

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Wolfgang Rihm ranks 997 out of 1,216Before him are Ahmet Adnan Saygun, Emil von Sauer, Paul Taffanel, John Rutter, Henri Pousseur, and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse. After him are Emil Hartmann, Julius Reubke, Percy Grainger, Robert Gerhard, Mikael Tariverdiev, and Harald Sæverud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Wolfgang Rihm ranks 241Before him are Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Luka Peruzović, Bruno Giacomelli, Mona Hatoum, Roseanne Barr, and Daniel Balavoine. After him are Adi Shamir, Gregory David Roberts, Shelley McNamara, Dominique Mamberti, Bora Đorđević, and Miyuki Nakajima.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wolfgang Rihm ranks 3,590 out of 6,142Before him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Horst Szymaniak (1934), Amelia of Nassau-Weilburg (1776), Princess Augusta of Saxe-Meiningen (1843), Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685), and Dorothea of Anhalt-Zerbst (1607). After him are Fritz Buchloh (1909), Kurt Aland (1915), Albert Betz (1885), Jürgen Ehlers (1929), Carl Ludwig Koch (1778), and Erich Ollenhauer (1901).

Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Wolfgang Rihm ranks 149Before him are Walter Braunfels (1882), Friedrich Silcher (1789), Johann Adolf Scheibe (1708), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), Emil von Sauer (1862), and Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774). After him are Julius Reubke (1834), Hugo Distler (1908), Johann Theile (1646), Adolf Bernhard Marx (1795), Gustav Lange (1830), and Julius Rietz (1812).