Aribert Reimann

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Aribert Reimann (born 4 March 1936 in Berlin) is a German opera composer, pianist and accompanist. His version of King Lear was written at the suggestion of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau who sang the title role. After studying composition, counterpoint and piano (under, among others, Boris Blacher) at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik, Reimann took a job as a repetiteur at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. His first appearances as a pianist and accompanist were towards the end of the 1960s. In the early 1970s, he became a member of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, and held a professorship in contemporary song at Berlin's Hochschule der Künste from 1983 to 1998. Reimann's reputation as a composer has increased greatly with several great literary operas, including Lear and Das Schloss (The Castle). Besides these, he has written chamber music, orchestral works and songs. He has been honoured repeatedly, including the Großen Verdienstkreuz mit Stern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Great German Cross of Merit, with Star) and the Verdienstorden des Landes Berlin (Berlin Order of Merit). His most recently commissioned work, Cantus for Clarinet and Orchestra, dedicated to the clarinettist and composer Jörg Widmann, premiered on January 13, 2006, in the WDR's Large Broadcasting Hall in Cologne, Germany, in the presence of the composer, who claims the work was inspired by Claude Debussy's compositions for clarinet. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; addit

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Reimann, A.: Lear [Opera]

Reimann: Piano Works (Complete)

Reimann, A.: Song Cycles After Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn

Reimann, A.: Mendelssohn oder soll es Tod bedeuten? / String Quartet No. 3

Reimann: Medea

Reimann: Zyklus / Kumi Ori / Die Pole Sind in Uns

Reimann: Lear (2 CDs)

Requiem

Schubert: Winterreise

Reimann, A.: Cantus / Ollea / Solo for Clarinet / … Ni Una Sombra / Arietta

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Reimann: Lieder

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