Rainer Riehn

Rainer Riehn (1941-2015) was a German composer, conductor and music editor, born in Danzig (now Gdańsk). With Heinz-Klaus Metzger he co-founded the Ensemble Musica Negativa, which he conducted, and edited the series Musik-Konzepte from 1977 to 2003. His own electronic and chamber works remained mostly unpublished. Riehn studied with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, where he made electronic pieces including a version of Lautréamont's Les Chants de Maldoror. Deutsche Grammophon issued it in its Avantgarde series, beside works by Koenig and Zoltán Pongrácz.