Drawn in by the sound (AT)
A (no) portrait of the composer Jörg Widmann

Jörg Widmann, born in 1973, is one of the most prolific composers of this time: the shooting star of contemporary music. At the same time he is one of the best clarinettists of the world who, with the most precious sound, revives Mozart’s clarinet concerto and frees it from its image of being a piece for musical request programmes. Widmann’s life as a composer and as an interpreter go hand in hand while he is also professor in Freiburg. A portrait of Jörg Widmann therefore is also an attempt to capture his world of sounds in the form of images: it is a “classic” portrait and at the same time the attempt to sensualize his music.