"Structural perfection", "refined music", "a resounding continuum of sound": during Friedrich Cerha's lifetime and beyond, performances of his works have met with an enthusiastic response - a selection of press reviews from recent years.
To hear his early work Fasce once again was a great wish of Friedrich Cerha - now the performance at the Wien Modern Festival with the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna conducted by Bas Wiegers on 15 November turned into a memorial concert for the composer who died in February.
Numerous obituaries, some of them very personal, pay tribute to the life and work of Friedrich Cerha, who died in February 2023.
Composers of various generations talk about their personal encounters with Friedrich Cerha’s monumental Spiegel cycle.
Composer and painter: Friedrich Cerha (1926-2023) was both. Karsten Witt on his encounters with the artist since the 1980s.
Friedrich Cerha died on the morning of February 14, just a few days before his 97th birthday. We mourn the loss of a great artist, one of the most important composers of our time and an ever-attentive, critical contemporary.
The series of concerts celebrating Friedrich Cerha's 95th birthday culminated in August 2021: the monumental Spiegel cycle was performed at the Salzburg Festival by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Ingo Metzmacher. We celebrated the anniversary with a collection of portrait articles, current links, and his video interview for the Stadtjournal wien.at.
Musicians who also express themselves in other artistic fields were at the centre of the Donaueschingen Festival 2014. A composer who many saw in a new light on this occasion is Friedrich Cerha.
Tagebuch and Orchesterstücke: In 2014, two orchestra pieces by Friedrich Cerha received its world premieres.
