Munich-based composer Johannes Wiedenhofer has been awarded the Fanny Mendelssohn Composition Prize, which comes with a prize of 10,000 euros. The award was presented on Friday evening at the Cage-Haus Halberstadt during the KlangART Vision Festival for contemporary music in Saxony-Anhalt. A chamber music piece by Wiedenhofer, composed specifically for this occasion, had its world premiere at the concert.
The evening was part of the supporting program for the Klangwechsel performance of the organ piece “ORGAN2/ASLSP” by American composer John Cage (1912–1992). The abbreviation ASLSP stands for “as slow as possible” and thus also serves as a performance instruction. As the slowest work in music history, it has been running for 25 years and is therefore still quite early in its performance. This is because the total performance duration is supposed to be 639 years. Now, one note has been added.
