"Globally respected musician" - HfMT mourns the death of Aribert Reimann

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On March 13, 2024, the great composer, song accompanist, musicologist and university lecturer Aribert Reimann died in Berlin. After studying composition and piano in Berlin with Boris Blacher and Ernst Pepping, among others, and an extensive concert and composition career, Reimann took up a professorship at the HfMT in 1974, where he established the first ever training class for contemporary song with piano and voice students. In 1983, he moved to a professorship at the UdK Berlin and became a member of the Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg. In 1987, he was awarded the Bach Prize of the Hanseatic city.
His time in Hamburg also saw the world premiere of his most successful opera "Lear", which was commissioned by August Everding for the 300th anniversary of the Hamburg Opera in 1978. Due to Everding's move to Munich in 1977, however, the premiere of the work originally planned for Hamburg took place in Munich.

HfMT President Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Sprick"Aribert Reimann did pioneering work with regard to contemporary song during his time teaching at the Hamburg University of Music. In view of the death of this internationally respected musician, it is important to me to remind us once again of his long presence in Hamburg. It was during his time in Hamburg that decisive impulses for the development of his artistic and pedagogical activities came about. The university is and will remain particularly close to Aribert Reimann."