Josef Anton Riedl

Who is Josef Anton Riedl?

Josef Anton Riedl (born June 11, 1929 in Munich) is a German composer of works for electronics and self-constructed instruments, noted for environmental events and mixed-media compositions. With more far-reaching consequences than his study at the Munich Conservatory was his discovery of musique concrete at the "Stage International Festival d'Aix en Provence" in 1951, the compositions of Carl Orff and Edgar Varese ("Ionisation"), and later the courses by Herman Scherchen in Gravesano. His interest in the new music prompted him to found the German section of "Jeunesses Musicales." Some of the other important milestones in his career are the work with Pierre Scheffer's "Groupe de Recherches de Musique Concrete" in Paris (1953-1955) and at the "Studio fur Elektronische Musik" des WDR in Koln (1955), the co-founding with Carl Orff of the "Siemens Studio fur Elektronische Musik in Munich (1960-1966), and the founding of the "Institut fur Klangforschung und Elektronische Musik" in Munich (1966). From 1967 he worked at the "Musik/Film/Dia/Licht-Galerie" on organizing national/international multimedia events, and for the "Neue Musik Munchen" which is a festival he founded in 1960 and which exists to this day under the name of "Klang-Aktionen." He wrote film scores for "Die zweite Heimat - Chronik eine Jugend" (1992) and nine other films, and his most popular compositions include "Stroboskopie" "Glas-Spiele," "Klangsynchronie II," "Leonce und Lena," and "Paper Music II." Josef Anton Riedl is member of the Bayerischen Akademie der Schonen Kunste since 2008.