Composer · German composer
Rolf Riehm
Biography
Rolf Riehm is a German composer born in Saarbrücken in 1937. He studied music education in Frankfurt and composition with Wolfgang Fortner in Freiburg, and became professor of composition and music theory at Frankfurt’s Musikhochschule in 1974.
His work is closely connected with public, political and historical awareness. He has participated in experimental musical groups and developed a catalogue that challenges conventional instrumental expression. His music for guitar appears on Stéphan Masserano’s European Guitar of the Twentieth Century.