It took most of Rihm efforts during the 90s and the first version was provisionally finished in 2001 and premiered in November, 2001, in Basel, by the Ensemble Modern with Dominique My as conductor.
The original version of Jagden und Formen was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society's Prize for Large-Scale Composition in 2001.
This version was premiered with live on-stage dancers in a choreography by Sasha Waltz at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, again with the Ensemble Modern.
[3] The piece starts out with a clap of hands by all the musicians on stage and a violin duo, which is later joined by the woodwinds, brass, and percussion and, later on, by the rest of the instrument in the orchestra, using the same structure and thematic material as in Gejagte Form.
[3] A reviewer in Gramophone wrote that Jagden und Formen was one of the strongest Rihm scores they had heard "and holds the listener throughout its [50-odd] minutes [...] Those unfamiliar with his music (or with his recent output‚ certainly) could do worse than start here.