Helmut Lachenmann
Composer
Stuttgart, 1935. Helmut Lachenmann studied piano with Jürgen Uhde and theory and counterpoint with Johann Nepomuk David at the Music Conservatory in Stuttgart. From 1958 to 1960 he received composition lessons in Venice from Luigi Nono, composer who influenced him over the course of his career. It was in the late sixties that he developed what he call m usique concrète instrumentale, implying a musical language that embraces the entire soundworld made accessible through unconventional playing techniques. He has worked as a professor of composition at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule and at the Darmstadt Musikinstitut. He is Honorary Doctor at the universities of Hannover, Dresde and Colonia, and a member of the Arts Academies of Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig, Mannheim, Munich and Brussels.
Interview: Luisa Etxenike
Luisa Etxenike is a writer and currently the director of Canal Europa. She runs the literary festival Un mundo de Escritoras, as well as a creative writing workshop for some years now. She has published, among others, the novels Los peces negros (2005), El ángulo ciego (Euskadi Literature Prize 2009), El detective de sonidos (2011), Aves del paraíso (2019), as well as the collection of poems El arte de la pesca (2015). She has also published Cruzar el agua (2022), Llevar en la piel (2023, winner of the Semana Negra Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize) and Cuerdas (2025). In 2007 she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.
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