Rolf Riehm

Rolf Riehm (1937-2026) was a German composer and oboist, born in Saarbrücken. He wrote orchestral, chamber and music theatre works, often drawing on myth and political subjects, and taught composition and music theory at the Frankfurt Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst from 1974 to 2000. He was elected to the Berlin Akademie der Künste in 2010. Riehm studied oboe and music pedagogy in Frankfurt and composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg, and worked first as a solo oboist.