12 Kontakte Elektronische Musik Realisationspartitur [Wien]: Universal [PN 13678LW], ©1968. 1f. Find Karlheinz Stockhausen bio, music, credits, awards, & streaming links on AllMusic - The most influential, unique voice in the musical… Karlheinz Stockhausen. Highly recommended as a foundational book for any composer, producer or performer of electronic music.
Find Karlheinz Stockhausen composition information on AllMusic. Founded in 1951, the WDR Studio für elektronische Musik (Studio for Electronic Music) in Cologne housed many of Europe’s greatest post-War, avant-garde experimentalists of the time. A composer of avant-garde electronic and instrumental music, Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the most elusive and enigmatic musical thinkers of his generation. Photo courtesy of Stockhausen-Verlag, thanks to James Stonebraker Interview with Iara Lee for MODULATIONS Introduction by James Wesley Johnson (January 1999) On the eve of a new millenium it seems fitting that composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, so larger than life, comments on music, the cosmos and his dreams for a spiritual future. A pioneer of electronic music and experimentation, Karlheinz Stockhausen is revered by many in his exploration of realising the full potential of musical composition.
Karlheinz Stockhausen lectures on Kontakte, one of his most significant works, at the well–known summer school in Darmstadt, Germany, 1961. Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen-Verlag Catalogue. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Soundtrack: Walkabout. Original publisher's ivory printed wrappers with file clip to inner margin. The most influential, unique voice in the musical avant-garde, with a keen sensitivity to the acoustical realities and possibilities of sound. The torch was not to go out for decades, with one masterpiece following close on the heels of another: in 1953, at the age of 25, Stockhausen composed Studie I for sinus tones - the first purely electronic music. Organized chronologically, this volume catalogs Stockhausen's complete output and identifies the sources of his inspiration. (recto title, verso copyright), 1f. 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, A musical pioneer, Karlheinz Stockhausen broke many barriers and taboos. Karlheinz Stockhausen emerged early on as one of the most influential and unique voices in the post-WWII European musical avant-garde and his prominence continued throughout the rest of the twentieth century and into the twenty first. Find Karlheinz Stockhausen composition information on AllMusic. Listen to your favorite songs from Karlheinz Stockhausen. Early life, Germany during WWII As with many great artists, an introduction to their early life paves an explanatory path to … (recto dedication to Dr. Otto Tomek, verso performance notes), 68 pp. Few individuals have influenced the development of electronic music as much as Karlheinz Stockhausen, who died last December. This work reveals so much about the life of the man through his own words. Birthplace: Mödrath, Germany Location of death: Kürten, Germany Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Kürten Fr.
If you have any interest in music theory, avant-garde composition, or in how electronic music—and hence how our world—came to sound the way it … The most influential, … The Concept of Unity in Electronic Music (Stockhausen, Perspectives of New Music Vol. Stockhausen has such profound relevance to everything in electronic music today - after all, he's considered to be the "Father of Electronic Music." Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer, an important creator and theoretician of electronic and serial music who strongly influenced avant-garde composers from the 1950s through the ’80s.
"Four Criteria of Electronic Music" is the fifth in a long series of lectures Stockhausen delivered in London that year.