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The decades-long uniform enthusiasm for Helmut Lachenmann's music has an almost uncanny effect on those who are enthusiastic about it, at least on those who have seriously studied his work. Composers, musicologists, musicians or authorized ensembles of New Music have placed his compositions on an equal footing with those who were responsible for the upheavals in the history of music.

Such enthusiasm and unavoidable idolization inevitably involves - out of phase - overcoming the idol and thus the independent critical distance expected of the composer Lachenmann.

This book, dedicated to the composer on the occasion of his seventieth birthday, brings together texts that are more than sympathetic to the work and the man, including attempts to explode the already fossilized image of Lachenmann. In their often personal, but also scholarly approach, a perhaps new painting emerges of the composer, who disapproves of nothing so much as the commitment to self-expressed postulates, incidentally a painting that makes careful retouches to the already existing images, but also a painting that hopefully "blurs" itself, or better: "blurs" itself.

Claus Steffen Mahnkopf: Two attempts at Helmut Lachenmann | Lydia Jeschke: Listening without closing and opening? Thoughts on a Concept with Tradition | Manuel Hidalgo: Mozart in Lachenmann | Hermann Kretzschmar: The Lachenmann Experience Michael Reudenbach: 'Toccatina'. A Memory | Frank Cox: Lachenmann as a Romantic High Modernist

Günter Seubold: From euphony to tactile sound. Helmut Lachenmann's de-composition. With a look at Heidegger and Klee | Ralf-Alexander Kohler: On the political dimension of a musical category or how Helmut Lachenmann's "musique concrète instrumentale" is to be understood in terms of compositional technique | Matthias Hermann: Die Wand - das Gegenüber. On the role of the "house wall" in Helmut Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern | Jörn Peter Hiekel: Zwischen Nüchternheit und Emphase. Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern as a fairytale opera | Wolfgang Hofer: Spuren. Reading: Criss-cross. Sometimes in fairy tales. With the matches of sulphur as an example. On Helmut Lachenmann Rainer Nonnenmann: "...to become what we are...". Traces and correspondences in Helmut Lachenmann's work

Mark André: "...from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south..." (for Helmut on his 70th birthday) Hans-Peter Jahn: "...puny for my sake... shabby... not malicious...". 12 approaches to the (composing) person Helmut Lachenmann.

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