Born: 11-Jun-1929 [1]
Birthplace: Munich, Germany

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Composer

Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Glas-Spiele

Composer of works for electronics, multimedia, and self-constructed instruments. Riedl was drawn to music from a young age, performing improvised works for piano and organ while still in gymnasium. His early life in Germany was complicated by his mother's Jewish heritage; nonetheless he was drafted very late into the Second World War, around 1944, only to be taken prisoner by Allied forces and held in a POW camp in France until 1947. Riedl was inspired by Edgard Var�se's Ionisation toward composing solely for percussion, in which he was encouraged by Carl Orff, but this tack was derailed by his discovery of Pierre Schaeffer's musique concr�te in 1951. Riedl worked with that composer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris, 1953-55, followed by stints at various electronic music studios, including at the Siemens Studio (also founded by Orff) from 1960-66. In Munich he directed the series "Neue Musik", overseeing premiers of pieces by Dieter Schnebel, Mauricio Kagel, and others. Typical of Riedl's works are Paper Music (1970) and Glas-Spiel (1977, for an array of glass tubes), in which each improvised performance is guided by a played back recording of a previous improvisation.

    Siemens Studio for Electronic Music (1960-66)
    Jewish Ancestry maternal

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