https://van-magazine.com/mag/how-jorg-widmann-became-ubiquitous/ An independent online classical music magazine Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://van-magazine.com/mag/how-jorg-widmann-became-ubiquitous/#comment-10067 Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:36:25 +0000 http://music-of-the-middle-degree#comment-10067 […] Project” program: variations on the short and somewhat banal waltz by contemporary composers (Jörg Widmann, Lera Auerbach, Max Richter, Toshio Hosokawa) and historical musicians (Liszt, Czerny, Schubert) in […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/how-jorg-widmann-became-ubiquitous/#comment-8097 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 17:26:14 +0000 http://music-of-the-middle-degree#comment-8097 […] (“My parents weren’t musicians, but they had a hobby string quartet at home,” the composer Jörg Widmann has said, which seems like a flat contradiction.) But when parents are familiar with classical […]

]]> https://van-magazine.com/mag/how-jorg-widmann-became-ubiquitous/#comment-8067 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:20:21 +0000 http://music-of-the-middle-degree#comment-8067 […] composers are stuck with the relative prestige of the new music scene. Many people who have heard multiple pieces by Jörg Widmann likely have never heard anything by Romitelli, whose surreal “Dead City Radio” (2003) would […]

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