Jakob Lenz

Album by Wolfgang Rihm & Richard Salter & Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin & Arturo Tamayo

Jakob Lenz is a chamber opera by German composer Wolfgang Rihm, first performed in 1979. The work employs concentrated orchestral textures, fragmented motifs and intense vocal writing to depict the protagonist's psychological disintegration, and it occupies a place in Rihm's early output as he developed a more expressionist, modernist musical language.