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Lachenmann was born in Stuttgart. He studied piano with Jürgen Uhde and composition and theory with Johann Nepomuk David at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule from 1955 to 1958 and was the first private student of Luigi Nono in Venice from 1958 to 1960. From Nono, he acquired the belief that music should aim to serve a message of social relevance. He also worked briefly at the electronic music studio at the University of Ghent in 1965, but thereafter focused almost exclusively on purely instrumental music.

His music has often been called musique concrète instrumentale, a term that the composer originated, which implies music that imitates electronic sounds through instrumental means. According to the composer, this is music “in which the sound events are chosen and organized so that the manner in which they are generated is at least as important as the resultant acoustic qualities themselves. Consequently those qualities, such as timbre, volume, etc., do not produce sounds for their own sake, but describe or denote the concrete situation: listening, you hear the conditions under which a sound- or noise-action is carried out, you hear what materials and energies are involved and what resistance is encountered”. His music is therefore primarily derived from the most basic of sounds, which through processes of amplification serve as the bases for extended works. His scores place enormous demands on performers, due to the plethora of techniques that he has invented for wind, brass and string instruments.
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  • nysynecdoche

    lol who the fuck listens to music through computer speakers, specially classical music. i need to check this guy btw.

    last month

  • mattimeus

    is that seriously dancing queen at the end of les consolations?

    last month

  • mattimeus

    yeah im into art. totally. something that sits there and does nothing. fuck i love art.[2]

    December 2011

  • insomniacme

    yeah im into art. totally. something that sits there and does nothing. fuck i love art.

    November 2011

  • Killer_Artist

    The usual suspects, I see.

    August 2011

  • mahleria

    Listening through computer speakers is not recommended.

    August 2011

  • wkn

    He is a genius but I find his music demands an excellent sound system to fully materialize.

    June 2011

  • mattimeus

    the string quartets are tight as hell

    April 2011
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