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Gesang der Jünglinge ("Song of the Youths"), electronic and concrete music, Nr. 8 (1955–56) Geburts-Fest ("Festival of Birth"), choir music with sound scenes for choir a cappella and tape, ex Nr. 56, from act 1 of Montag aus Licht (1987)
Karlheinz Stockhausen Complete List of Works. All works which were composed until 1969 (work numbers 1/11 to 29) are published by Universal Edition in Vienna, with the exception of ETUDE, Electronic STUDIES I and II, GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE, KONTAKTE, MOMENTE, and HYMNEN, which are published since 1993 by the Stockhausen-Verlag, and the renewed compositions 3x REFRAIN 2000, MIXTURE 2003, STOP ...
Stockhausen was born in Burg Mödrath, the "castle" of the village of Mödrath.The village, located near Kerpen in the Cologne region, was displaced in 1956 to make way for lignite strip mining, but the castle itself still stands.
10 impossible classical masterpieces. 2. Kontra-Punkte. In the original programme notes for the premiere of Kontra-Punkte in 1953, Stockhausen wrote, ‘in a many-faceted sound-world with individual notes and durations, all oppositions are to be dissolved until a state is reached in which everything that is heard is unified; immutable.’.
Cosmic Pulses was composed in 2006–2007, it is the 13th part of the Klang cycle, based on the 24 hours of the day, and it is Stockhausen’s last purely electronic work. It is composed from 24 melodic loops, comprising from 1 to 24 pitches, in a range of seven octaves. These loops rotate at 24 different speeds around 8 loudspeakers.
Stockhausen continually shattered musical boundaries, composing in a dazzling array of styles, from the ‘pointism’ of Punkte (1952) to the ‘super formula’ of LICHT (1977-2002) and beyond. Radio shaped Stockhausen’s early thinking as a conduit for communication. Deep-rooted in music as vibration, hence tactile and physical, he saw ...
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (born Aug. 22, 1928, Mödrath, near Cologne, Ger.—died Dec. 5, 2007, Kürten) was a German composer, an important creator and theoretician of electronic and serial music who strongly influenced avant-garde composers from the 1950s through the ’80s. Stockhausen studied at the State Academy for Music in Cologne and the ...
