ABSTRACT
This interview took place on 19 January 2006 in Paris, during the concert series ‘Lachenmann/Mozart’ at the Cité de la Musique. The year of Lachenmann’s seventieth birthday, 2005, saw an explosion of international interest in the composer’s work. Having stood at the forefront of the German avant-garde music scene since the 1960s and yet having received surprisingly little attention from outside his home country, Lachenmann is now finally coming to be regarded on the international stage as one of the greatest composers of his epoch.
