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In the1980s Wolfgang Rihm intended to find out to which extent composing in anon-system based way is possible. Therefore he had to develop new aestheticconcepts, such as considering a composition as a series of unique and notrelated events (‘Einzelereignisse’). His experiments in composing withoutpreplanning, even without any sketch, resulted in, among others, the StringQuartets nos. 5-8 and the Chiffre cycle.It was not Rihm’s intention to explain his compositional approach in asystematic wayor to deliver a ‘manual’ for the analysis of his compositions.However, at the end of the 1980s, he stated: ‘It is impossible to make a workof art without coherence.’In my PhD,I try find out how it is possible to analyse the compositions, where and how‘coherence’ can be found. Therefore, I try to find some clues in his texts andinterviews and I try to apply these clues to the string quartets of the 1980sand the Chiffre cycle.The singularityof each composition necessitates an individual analytical approach, whereaiming at ‘com-posed’, related elements must not be excluded. This implies thatI reconsider existing analytical tools and invent new ones, but also that Ihave to accept ‘inexactness’ and restricted applicability of the analyticalresults.Furthermore,in the 1980s Rihm was interested in the concept of a composition ‘as apainting’, covering much more than the technique he described as ‘Übermalung’(overpainting, or applied on music: overwriting and rewriting). My analyticalapproach will also be based on the possibility of the transfer from a paintingto a musical work, both on the level of creation and perception.

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