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Gesang der Jünglinge (literally "Song of the Youths") is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was realized in 1955–56 at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk studio in Cologne and is Work Number 8 in the composer's catalog. The vocal parts were supplied by 12-year-old Josef Protschka. It is exactly 13 minutes, 14 seconds long.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (German: [kaʁlˈhaɪnts ˈʃtɔkhaʊzn̩] ⓘ; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important [1][2][3][4] but also controversial [5] composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having ...
Today, Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths, 1956) by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007) still represents arguably the most famous piece of electronic music of the 20th century. At the time it was realized, Stockhausen was enrolled at the University of Bonn working on a PhD in communications under the mentorship of Werner Meyer-Eppler (1913-1960), who had been a physics professor earlier ...
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.’.
For a number of scholars, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the Youths) is “the first masterpiece of electronic music.”. It was premiered in the large auditorium of Cologne’s Westdeutscher Rundfunk on 30 May 1956. The subject of the story is rather grim. The “Youths” mentioned in the title are Shadrach, Meshach ...
Dec 8, 2007 · Dec. 8, 2007 12 AM PT. Times Staff Writer. Karlheinz Stockhausen, the great German composer who envisioned music as a force of cosmic revolution and who himself became a musical force of nature ...
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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.
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