Aribert Reimann

Aribert Reimann (1936-2024) was a German composer and pianist, born in Berlin. He studied composition with Boris Blacher and counterpoint with Ernst Pepping at the Berlin Musikhochschule, and worked for decades as a song accompanist, above all with the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His opera Lear, with Fischer-Dieskau in the title role, was first staged in Munich in 1978. Reimann's first opera, Ein Traumspiel after Strindberg, was premiered in Kiel in 1965, and Melusine followed in 1971.