Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a German composer, and one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th century (Barret 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117; Power 1990, 30). He is best known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music and controlled chance in serial composition. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (687x918, 186 KB) NOTE:CROPPED FROM ORIGINAL File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Karlheinz Stockhausen Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera... is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... In the broadest sense, contemporary music is any music being written in the present day. ... Musique concrète (French; literally, concrete music), is a style of avant-garde music that relies on natural environmental sounds and other non-musical noises to create music. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified with the purpose of making music. ... A short grand piano, with the lid up. ... is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. ...

Biography

Stockhausen was born in the Burg (Castle) of the village of Mödrath, at the time serving as the maternity home of the Bergheim Kreis. (The village, located near Kerpen in the vicinity of Cologne, was dislocated in 1956 by the strip-mining of lignite in the region, though the Burg itself still exists). He grew up in Altenberg from the age of 7, where he received his first piano lessons from the Protestant organist of the Altenberg Cathedral, Franz-Josef Kloth (Kurtz 1992, 14). He studied music pedagogy and piano at the Cologne Musikhochschule, and musicology, philosophy, and Germanics at the University of Cologne (1947–51). Although he had the usual training in harmony and counterpoint, the latter with Hermann Schroeder, it was only in 1950 that he developed a real interest in composition, and was admitted at the end of the year to the class of the Swiss composer Frank Martin, who had just begun a seven-year tenure in Cologne (Kurtz 1992, 28). At the Darmstadt Summer Courses in 1951 he met the Belgian composer Karel Goeyvaerts, who had just completed studies with Olivier Messiaen (analysis) and Darius Milhaud (composition) in Paris, and Stockhausen resolved to do likewise. He arrived in Paris on 8 January 1952, and began attending Messiaen's courses and Milhaud's classes (Kurtz 1992, 45–46). In March 1953 he left Paris to take up a position as assistant to Herbert Eimert, at the newly established Electronic Music Studio of NWDR (from 1 January 1955, WDR) in Cologne. (In 1962 he succeeded Eimert as director of the studio.) From 1954 to 1956 he studied phonetics, acoustics, and information theory with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. Together with Eimert, he edited the influential journal Die Reihe from 1955 to 1962. Mödrath (new Mödrath) is a quarter of Kerpen and was annexed to the Kerpen Ortskern (local centre) in the course of the lignite resettlement in 1956. ... 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After lecturing at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik at Darmstadt (first in 1953), Stockhausen gave lectures and concerts in Europe, North America, and Asia. He was guest professor of composition at the University of Pennsylvania in 1965, and at the University of California, Davis, in 1966-67 (Kramer 1998). He founded and directed the Cologne Courses for New Music from 1963 to 1968, and was appointed Professor of Composition at the National Conservatory of Music, Cologne, in 1971, where he taught until 1977 (Kurtz 1992, 126–28 & 194). Initiated in 1946 by Wolfgang Steinecke, the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik (Darmstadt new music summer courses), held annually until 1970 and subsequently every two years, encompass both the teaching of composition and interpretation and include premières of new works. ...

In 1961 he acquired a parcel of land in the vicinity of Kürten, a village east of Cologne, near Bergisch Gladbach in the Bergisches Land. He had a house built there, designed to his specifications by the architect Erich Schneider-Wessling, where he has resided since its completion in the autumn of 1965 (Kurtz 1992, 116–17, 137–38). In 1998, he founded the Stockhausen Courses, held annually in Kürten. Kürten is a village and a municipality in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Categories: Germany geography stubs | Cities in Germany ... Berg was a medieval territory in todays North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ...

In 1951 he married Doris Andreae, with whom he had four children: Suja (b. 1953), Christel (b. 1956), Markus (b. 1957), and Majella (b. 1961). German trumpeter and composer Markus Pirol Stockhausen (b Cologne, 2 May 1957) is son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ...

In 1967 he married Mary Bauermeister, with whom he had two children: Julika (b. 1966) and Simon (b. 1967). Mary Hilde Ruth Bauermeister (born 7 September 1934 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German artist. ...

Works

See also: List of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen

Stockhausen has written over 300 individual works. He often departs radically from musical tradition and his work is influenced by Messiaen, Edgard Varèse, and Anton Webern, as well as by film (Stockhausen 1996b) and by painters such as Piet Mondrian (Stockhausen 1996a, 94; Texte 3, 92–93; Toop 1998) and Paul Klee. A list of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer. ... Anton Webern (December 3, 1883 – September 15, 1945) was an Austrian composer and conductor. ... Piet Mondrian, 1924 Pieter Cornelis (Piet) Mondriaan, after 1912 Mondrian, (pronounced: Dutch IPA: , later Pete Mon-dree-on, IPA: ) (b. ... “Klee” redirects here. ...

1950s

Stockhausen began to compose in earnest only during his third year at the conservatory (Kurtz 1992, 26–27). He has published only four of his early student compositions, Chöre für Doris, Drei Lieder for alto voice and chamber orchestra, Choral for a capella choir (all three from 1950), and a Sonatina for Violin and Piano (1951).

Starting from just after his first Darmstadt visit in 1951, Stockhausen began working with a form of athematic serial composition that rejected the twelve-tone technique of Schoenberg (Felder 1977, 92). He characterizes many of these earliest compositions (together with the music of other, like-minded composers of the period) as punktuelle ("punctual" or "pointist" music, commonly mistranslated as "pointillist") Musik, though one critic concluded after analysing several of these early works that Stockhausen "never really composed punctually" (Sabbe 1981). Compositions from this phase include Kreuzspiel (1951), the Klavierstücke I–IV (1952—the fourth is specifically cited by Stockhausen as an example of "punctual music" in Texte 2, 19), and the first (unpublished) versions of Punkte and Kontra-Punkte (1952) (Texte 2, 20). In music, a theme is the initial or primary melody. ... The references in this article would be clearer with a different and/or consistent style of citation, footnoting or external linking. ... Twelve-tone technique (also dodecaphony) is a method of musical composition devised by Arnold Schoenberg. ... Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 Arnold Schoenberg (the anglicized form of Schönberg — Schoenberg changed the spelling officially when he left Germany and re-converted to Judaism in 1933; September 13, 1874 – July 13, 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer. ... Punctualism (commonly also called pointillism) is a style of musical composition prevalent in Europe between 1949 and 1955 whose structures are predominantly effected from tone to tone, without superordinate formal conceptions coming to bear (Essl 1989, 93). ... Kreuzspiel (Crossplay) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen written for for oboe, bass clarinet, piano and three percussionists in 1951. ... The Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces) are a series of compositions by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... Kontra-Punkte is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen which resolves contrasts of six pairs of instruments, as well as extremes of note values and dynamic levels, into a homogeneous ending texture. ...

Starting in 1953, he turned to electronic music, first producing two Electronic Studies (1953 and 1954), and then introducing spatial placements of sound sources with his noted work Gesang der Jünglinge (1955–56). Stockhausen later wrote, describing this period of his development in electronic music, "The first revolution occurred from 1952/53 as musique concrète, electronic tape music, and space music, entailing composition with transformers, generators, modulators, magnetophones, etc, the integration of all concrete and abstract (synthetic) possibilities within sound (also all noises) and the controlled projection of sound in space" (Schwartz & Childs 1998, 380). His position as "the leading German composer of his generation" (Toop 2001) was established with this work and three concurrently composed pieces in different media: Zeitmasze for five woodwinds, Gruppen for three orchestras, and Klavierstück XI. For other uses, see Electronic music (disambiguation). ... Gesang der Jünglinge (Song of the young men) is a noted electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen created in 1955-56. ... Gruppen (Groups) for three orchestras (1955-57) is amongst the best-known works of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... The Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces) are a series of compositions by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ...

His work with electronic music and its utter fixity led him to explore modes of instrumental and vocal music in which performers' individual capabilities and the circumstances of a particular performance (e.g., hall acoustics) may determine certain aspects of a composition. He calls this "variable form" (Wörner 1973, 101–105). In other cases, a work may be presented from a number of different perspectives. In Zyklus (1959), for example, he began using graphical notation for instrumental music. The score is written so that the performance can start on any page, and it may be read upside down, or from right to left, as the performer chooses (Stockhausen, Texte 2, 73–100). Still other works permit different routes through the constituent parts. Stockhausen calls both of these possibilities "polyvalent form" (Stockhausen, Texte 1, 241–51), which may be either open form (essentially incomplete, pointing beyond its frame), as with Klavierstück XI (1956), or "closed form" (complete and self-contained) as with Momente (1962-64/69). Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger (Cycle for a percussionist) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... Sheet music is written representation of music. ... Aleatoric (or aleatory) music or composition, is music where some element of the composition is left to chance. ... Momente is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969. ...

In many of his works, elements are played off against one another, simultaneously and successively: in Kontra-Punkte ("Against Points", 1952-53) which, in its revised form became his official "opus 1", a process leading from an initial "point" texture of isolated notes toward a florid, ornamental ending is opposed by a tendency from diversity (six timbres, dynamics, and durations) toward uniformity (timbre of solo piano, a nearly constant soft dynamic, and fairly even durations); in Gruppen (1955-7) fanfares and passages of varying speed (superimposed durations based on the harmonic series) are occasionally flung between three full orchestras, giving the impression of movement in space. The Kontrapunkte is a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen which incorporates pairs of instruments and extremes of note values which confront one another. ... Gruppen (Groups) for three orchestras (1955-57) is amongst the best-known works of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... Pitched musical instruments are usually based on a harmonic oscillator such as a string or a column of air. ...

In his Kontakte for electronic sounds (optionally with piano and percussion) (1958–60) he achieved for the first time an isomorphism of the four parameters of pitch, duration, dynamics, and timbre (Stockhausen 1962, 40). Kontakte (Contacts) is a celebrated Electronic Music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, realized in 1958-60 at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) electronic-music studio in Cologne. ...

1960s

In 1960 Stockhausen returned to the composition of vocal music (for the first time since Gesang der Jünglinge) with Carré for four choirs and four orchestras. Two years later he began an expansive cantata titled Momente (1962-64/69), for solo soprano, four choir groups and thirteen instrumentalists. He pioneered live electronics in Mixtur (1964/67/2003) for orchestra and electronics, Mikrophonie I (1964) for tam-tam, two microphones, two filters with potentiometers (6 players), Mikrophonie II (1965) for choir, Hammond organ, and four ring modulators, and Solo for a melody instrument with feedback (1966). He also composed two electronic works for tape, Telemusik (1966) and Hymnen (1966-67). The latter also exists in a version with soloists, and the third of its four "regions" in a version with orchestra. At this time, Stockhausen also began to incorporate pre-existent music from world traditions into his compositions (Texte 4, 468–76). Telemusik was the first overt example of this trend (Kohl 2002). Through the 1960s, Stockhausen explored the possibilities of "process composition" in works for live performance, such as Prozession (1967), Kurzwellen, and Spiral (both 1968), culminating in the verbally described "intuitive music" compositions of Aus den sieben Tagen (1968), Für kommende Zeiten (1968-70), and Ylem (1972). In 1968 Stockhausen composed the vocal sextet Stimmung, for the Collegium Vocale Köln, an hour-long work based entirely on the overtones of a low B-flat. Momente is a work by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, written between 1962 and 1969. ... Mikrophonie is the title given by Karlheinz Stockhausen to two of his compositions, written in 1964 and 1965, in which “normally inaudible vibrations . ... A tam tam is also a kind of Gong A tam is also kind of Jamaican hat, probably from the Irish tam-o-shanter. ... Mikrophonie is the title given by Karlheinz Stockhausen to two of his compositions, written in 1964 and 1965, in which “normally inaudible vibrations . ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Ring modulation is an audio effect performed by multiplying two audio signals, where one is typically a sine-wave or another simple waveform. ... Process music or systems music is music that arises from a process, and more specifically, music that makes that process audible. ... Aus den sieben Tagen (From the Seven Days) is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May of 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as intuitive music. Often regarded as meditation exercises, all but two of them nonetheless describe in words specific musical... Stimmung is also the german word for mood Stimmung, for 6 vocalists & 6 microphones, is a piece by Karlheinz Stockhausen written in 1968 and commissioned by the City of Cologne for the Collegium Vocale. ...

1970s

Beginning with Mantra (1970), Stockhausen turned to formula composition, a technique which involves the projection and multiplication of a single melody, double- or triple-line formula (Kohl 1983; Kohl 1990; Kohl 2004), sometimes (as in Mantra and Inori) stated at the outset as an introduction. He continued to use this technique through the completion of the opera-cycle Licht in 2003. Some works from the 1970s did not employ formula technique—e.g., the vocal duet "Am Himmel wandre ich" ("In the Sky I am Walking", 1972), "Laub und Regen" ("Leaves and Rain", from the theatre piece Herbstmusik (1974), and the choral opera Atmen gibt das Leben ("Breathing Gives Life", 1974/77)—but nevertheless share its simpler, melodically oriented style (Conen 1991, 57). Two such pieces, Tierkreis ("Zodiac", 1974–75) and In Freundschaft ("In Friendship", 1977), have become Stockhausen's most widely performed and recorded compositions. This dramatic simplification of style provided a model for a new generation of German composers, loosely associated under the label neue Einfachheit or New Simplicity (Andraschke 1981). The best-known of these composers is Wolfgang Rihm, who studied with Stockhausen in 1972-73, and whose orchestral composition Sub-Kontur (1974-75) quotes the formula of Stockhausen's Inori (1973–74). Mantra is a composition by the German avant garde composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in 1970. ... Formula composition is a serially-derived technique encountered in the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen, involving the rotation and expansion of a single melody-formula (usually stated at the outset). ... Look up melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Tierkreis (1974-75) is a musical composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... New Simplicity (in German, die neue Einfachheit) was a stylistic tendency amongst some of the younger generation of German composers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, reacting against not only the European avant garde of the 1950s and 1960s, but also against the broader tendency toward objectivity found from... Wolfgang Rihm (b. ...

1977–2003

Between 1977 and 2003 he composed a cycle of seven operas called Licht: Die sieben Tage der Woche ("Light: The Seven Days of the Week"). The Licht cycle deals with the traits historically associated with each weekday (Monday = birth and fertility, Tuesday = conflict, Wednesday = reconciliation and cooperation, Thursday = learning, etc.), and with the relationships between and among three archetypal characters; Lucifer, Michael, and Eve. Stockhausen's conception of opera is based significantly on ceremony and ritual, with influence from the Japanese Noh theatre (Stockhausen, Conen, and Hennlich 1989, 282), as well as Judeo-Christian and Vedic traditions (Bruno 1999, 134). Similarly, his approach to voice and text sometimes departs from traditional usage: characters are as likely to be portrayed by instrumentalists or dancers as by singers, and a few parts of Licht (e.g., Luzifers Traum from Samstag, and Michaelion from Mittwoch) use written or improvised texts in simulated languages. Licht (Light), subtitled The Seven Days of the Week, is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen which, in total, lasts over 29 hours. ... This article is about the star or fallen angel. ... Guido Renis archangel Michael (in the Capuchin church of Santa Maria della Concezione, Rome) tramples Satan. ... Michelangelos Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

After 2003

Since completing Licht, Stockhausen has embarked on a new cycle of compositions, based on the hours of the day, titled Klang ("Sound"). The works from this cycle performed to date are First Hour: Himmelfahrt (Ascension), for organ or synthesizer, soprano and tenor (2004-5); Second Hour: Freude (Joy) for two harps (2005); Third Hour: Natürliche Dauern (Natural Durations) for piano (2005-6); and Fourth Hour: Himmels-Tür (Heaven's Door) for a percussionist and a little girl (2005). The Fifth Hour, Harmonien (Harmonies) is for flute, bass clarinet, and trumpet (2006); the bass clarinet and flute solos from this piece were premièred in Kürten on 11 July 2007 and 13 July 2007, respectively. The Sixth through Twelfth hours are planned to be chamber-music works based on the material from the Fifth Hour. The Thirteenth Hour, Cosmic Pulses—an electronic work made by superimposing 24 layers of sound, each having its own spatial motion, among 8 loudspeakers placed around the concert hall[1]—was premièred in Rome on 7 May 2007 at Auditorium Parco della Musica, (Sala Sinopoli). is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 194th day of the year (195th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... is the 127th day of the year (128th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Parco della Musica auditorium in Rome The Parco della Musica is a large multi-function public music complex to the north of Rome--in the area where the 1960 Olympics had been staged. ...

In the early 1990s Stockhausen reacquired the licenses to most of the recordings of his music he had made to that point, and began his own record company to make this music permanently available on compact disc. He also designs and prints his own musical scores, which often involve unconventional devices. The score for his piece Refrain, for instance, includes a rotatable (refrain) on a transparent plastic strip, and dynamics in Weltparlament (the first scene of Mittwoch aus Licht) are coded in colour. CD redirects here. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ...

Stockhausen is one of the few major twentieth-century composers to write a large amount of music for the trumpet, inspired by his son Markus Stockhausen, a trumpeter. Trumpeter redirects here. ... German trumpeter and composer Markus Pirol Stockhausen (b Cologne, 2 May 1957) is son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ...

Stockhausen has had flying dreams throughout his life, and these dreams are reflected in the Helikopter-Streichquartett (the third scene of Mittwoch aus Licht), completed in 1993. In it, the four members of a string quartet perform in four helicopters flying independent flight-paths over the countryside near the concert hall. The sounds they play are mixed together with the sounds of the helicopters and played through speakers to the audience in the hall. Videos of the performers are also transmitted back to the concert hall. The performers are synchronized with the aid of a click-track. Despite its extremely unusual nature, the piece has been given several performances, including one on 22 August 2003 as part of the Salzburg Festival to open the Hangar-7 venue, and the German première on 17 June 2007 in Braunschweig as part of the Stadt der Wissenschaft 2007 Festival. The work has also been recorded by the Arditti Quartet. Helikopter-Sreichquartett is one of Karlheinz Stockhausens most well known pieces to date, and one of the most complex. ... The resident string quartet of the Library of Congress in 1963 A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string instruments—usually two violins, a viola and cello—or a piece written to be performed by such a group. ... For other uses, see Helicopter (disambiguation). ... The click track originated in early sound movies, where marks were made on the film itself to indicate exact timings for musicians to synchronise their recordings to the moving image. ... is the 234th day of the year (235th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Salzburg Festival (Salzburger Festspiele) is a prominent festival of music and drama. ... is the 168th day of the year (169th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Coordinates: Time zone: CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) Administration Country: Germany State: Lower Saxony District: Urban district City subdivisions: 20 Boroughs Lord Mayor: Gert Hoffmann (CDU) Governing parties: CDU / FDP Basic Statistics Area: 192. ... The Arditti Quartet is an internationally acclaimed string quartet founded in 1974. ...

Honours

Amongst the numerous honors and distinctions bestowed upon Stockhausen are:

• 1964 German gramophone critics award;
• 1966 and 1972 SIMC award for orchestral works (Italy);
• 1968 Grand Art Prize for Music of the State of North Rhine-Westfalia; Grand Prix du Disque (France); Member of the Free Academy of the Arts, Hamburg;
• 1968, 1969, and 1971 Edison Prize (Holland);
• 1970 Member of the Royal Swedish Academy;
• 1973 Member of the Academy of the Arts, Berlin;
• 1974 Distinguished Service Cross, 1st class (Germany);
• 1977 Member of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome;
• 1979 Member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters;
• 1980 Member of the European Academy of Science, Arts and Letters;
• 1981 Prize of the Italian music critics for Donnerstag aus Licht;
• 1982 German gramophone prize (German Phonograph Academy);
• 1983 Diapason d’or (France) for Donnerstag aus Licht;
• 1985 Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France);
• 1986 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize;
• 1987 Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, London;
• 1988 Honorary Citizen of the Kuerten community;
• 1989 Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
• 1990 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria;
• 1991 Honorary Fellow of the Royal Irish Academy of Music; Accademico Onorario of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Caecilia, Rome; Honorary Patron of Sound Projects Weimar;
• 1992 UNESCO Picasso Medal; Distinguished Service Medal of the German state North Rhine-Westfalia; German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Luzifers Tanz (3rd scene of Saturday from Light);
• 1993 Patron of the European Flute Festival; Diapason d’or for Klavierstücke I–XI and Mikrophonie I and II;
• 1994 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score Jahreslauf (Act 1 of Tuesday from Light);
• 1995 Honorary Member of the German Society for Electro-Acoustic Music; Bach Award of the city of Hamburg;
• 1996 Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h. c.) of the Free University of Berlin; Composer of the European Cultural Capital Copenhagen; Edison Prize (Holland) for Mantra; Member of the Free Academy of the Arts Leipzig; Honorary Member of the Leipzig Opera; Cologne Culture Prize;
• 1997 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Weltparlament (1st scene of Wednesday from Light); Honorary member of the music ensemble LIM (Laboratorio de Interpretación Musical), Madrid;
• 1999 Entry in the Golden Book of the city of Cologne;
• 2000 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Evas Erstgeburt (Act 1 of Monday from Light);
• 2000–2001 The film In Absentia made by the Quay Brothers (England) to concrete and electronic music by Karlheinz Stockhausen won the Golden Dove (first prize) at the International Festival for Animated Film in Leipzig. More awards: Special Jury Mention, Montreal, FCMM 2000; Special Jury Award, Tampere 2000; Special Mention, Golden Prague Awards 2001; Honorary Diploma Award, Cracow 2001; Best Animated Short Film, 50th Melbourne International Film Festival 2001; Grand Prix, Turku Finland 2001;
• 2001 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score Helicopter String Quartet (3rd scene of Wednesday from Light); Polar Music Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of the Arts;
• 2002 Honorary Patron of the Sonic Arts Network, England;
• 2003 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Michaelion (4th scene of Wednesday from Light);
• 2004 Associated member of the Academie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres & des Beaux-arts (Belgium); Honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h. c.) of the Queen’s University in Belfast; German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Stop and Start for 6 instrumental groups;
• 2005 German Music Publishers Society Award for the score of Hoch-Zeiten for choir (5th scene of Sunday from Light).

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Reception

Stockhausen and his music have been controversial and influential. The influence of his Kontra-Punkte, Zeitmasse and Gruppen may be seen in the work of many composers, including Igor Stravinsky's Threni (1957-58) and Movements for piano and orchestra (1958-59) and other works up to the Variations: Aldous Huxley In Memoriam (1963-64), whose rhythms "are likely to have been inspired, at least in part, by certain passages from Stockhausen's Gruppen" (Neidhöffer 2005, 340). Though music of Stockhausen's generation may seem an unlikely influence, in a 1957 conversation Stravinsky said: The Kontrapunkte is a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen which incorporates pairs of instruments and extremes of note values which confront one another. ... Gruppen (Groups) for three orchestras (1955-57) is amongst the best-known works of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. ... Igor Stravinsky. ...

I have all around me the spectacle of composers who, after their generation has had its decade of influence and fashion, seal themselves off from further development and from the next generation (as I say this, exceptions come to mind, Krenek, for instance). Of course, it requires greater effort to learn from one’s juniors, and their manners are not invariably good. But when you are seventy-five and your generation has overlapped with four younger ones, it behooves you not to decide in advance "how far composers can go," but to try to discover whatever new thing it is makes the new generation new. (Stravinsky and Craft 1959, 133)

Jazz musicians such as Miles Davis (Bergstein 1992), Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Yusef Lateef (Feather 1964; Tsahar 2006), and Anthony Braxton (Radano 1993, 110) cite Stockhausen as an influence, as do pop and rock artists such as Frank Zappa, who acknowledges Stockhausen in the liner notes of his 1966 debut with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!; The Beatles, who include an image of Stockhausen on the cover of their 1967 Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album; Rick Wright and Roger Waters of Pink Floyd (Macon 1997, 141; Bayles 1996, 222); San Francisco psychedelic groups Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead^{[citation needed]}; Cologne-based experimental band Can, whose founding members Irmin Schmidt and Holger Czukay in fact studied with Stockhausen; German electronic pioneers Kraftwerk^{[citation needed]}; New York guitar experimentalists Sonic Youth^{[citation needed]}; Icelandic vocalist Björk^{[citation needed]}; British industrial group Coil^{[citation needed]}; and British techno artist Aphex Twin^{[citation needed]}. Pianist Glenn Gould occasionally played a humorous character whom he based on Stockhausen, and who can be seen in the Glenn Gould Collection videos. Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz musician, widely considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. ... Cecil Percival Taylor (born March 15 or March 25, 1929 in New York City) is an American pianist and poet. ... Charles Mingus (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. ... Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an Academy Award and multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist and composer from Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Hancock is one of jazz musics most important and influential pianists and composers. ... Album cover of Eastern Sounds Dr. Yusef Lateef (born William Emanuel Huddleston, October 9, 1920) is an American jazz musician. ... Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer, multi-reedist and pianist. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American rock/jazz fusion musician, composer, and satirist. ... Freak Out!, released June 27, 1966 on MGM/Verve Records, is the debut album of The Mothers of Invention, led by Frank Zappa. ... The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ... Sgt. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London, England) is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... George Roger Waters (born September 6, 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, and composer. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that initially earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. ... Jefferson Airplane is an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement. ... This article is about the band. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... Irmin Schmidt (born May 29, 1937) is a keyboard player probably best known as a member of Can. ... Holger Czukay (born March 24, 1938) is a German musician, probably best known as a co-founder of the krautrock group Can. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) is a German musical group from Düsseldorf that has made immense contributions to the development of improvisational rock and electronic music, most notably within the latter categorys sub-genres which later became known as synthpop, electro, techno, house and IDM. Early musical... Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock group formed in New York City in 1981. ... This article is about the musician. ... Coil was an English cross-genre, experimental music group formed in 1982 by John Balance—later credited as Jhonn Balance—and his lover Peter Christopherson, aka Sleazy.[1] The duo worked together on a series of releases before Balance chose the name Coil, which he claimed to be inspired by... Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is an electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass. ... Glenn Gould rehearsing in 1974. ...

Perhaps the most caustic remark about Stockhausen was made by Sir Thomas Beecham. Asked "Have you heard any Stockhausen?", he replied, "No, but I believe I have trodden in some" (Lebrecht 1983, 334). To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Notable students

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September 11, 2001 terrorist attack statement controversy

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, Stockhausen was alleged to have made the statement that the attacks were "works of art". In a subsequent message, he stated that the press had hideously misinterpreted his meaning, and clarified as follows:

At the press conference in Hamburg, I was asked if Michael, Eve and Lucifer were historical figures of the past and I answered that they exist now, for example Lucifer in New York. In my work, I have defined Lucifer as the cosmic spirit of rebellion, of anarchy. He uses his high degree of intelligence to destroy creation. He does not know love. After further questions about the events in America, I said that such a plan appeared to be Lucifer's greatest work of art. Of course I used the designation "work of art" to mean the work of destruction personified in Lucifer. In the context of my other comments this was unequivocal.[2]

Stockhausen in literature

• Stockhausen was referred to in Philip K. Dick's novel Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said and Alan Moore's Watchmen.

• In Thomas Pynchon's 1966 novel The Crying of Lot 49, the characters Oedipa Maas and Metzger visit "The Scope," a bar with "a strict electronic music policy," and a hang-out for the Yoyodyne corporation's "electronic assembly people." Inquiring on a "sudden chorus of whoops and yibbles" coming out of "a kind of jukebox," Oedipa is told: "'That's by Stockhausen,' the hip graybeard informed her, 'the early crowd tends to dig your Radio Cologne sound. Later on we really swing.[']"

• In Donald Barthelme's 1975 novel The Dead Father, Stockhausen's music is mentioned as part of the title character's extensive system of torture for "triflers," alongside with the works of Teilhard de Chardin. As the context and the Dead Father's overall characterization suggest, Barthelme's treatment seems rather to satirize, not to iterate, popular derogative witticisms and sentiments aimed at serial music in general and Stockhausen in particular from the 1960s and 1970s.

• In Alexander McCall Smith's mystery The Sunday Philosophy Club the main character attends a concert of the Reykjavík Symphony and is unpleasantly surprised to find them playing an (unnamed) Stockhausen work. ("It was impossible music, really and it wasn't something a visiting orchestra should inflict on its hosts.")
• Similarly, Stuart Pawson's Charlie Priest mystery, Mushroom Man (Allison & Busby, 2004) ISBN 0749083859 mentions on p. 242 a concert where "... The warm-up piece was a Stockhausen. The orchestra plinked and clanged through it with concentrated enthusiasm ...".
• From Jerzy Kosinski's novel Pinball: "To Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose electronic compositions so clearly influenced Godard, a musical event was without a determined beginning or an inevitable end; it was neither a consequence of anything that preceded it nor a cause of anything to follow; it was eternity, attainable at any moment, not at the end of time. Whether one liked it or not, weren't life's events like that too?"

• In Julio Cortázar's Libro de Manuel one of the main characters likes listening to Prozession.

• Peter Robinson's detective novel Cold Is the Grave (New York: William Morrow, 2000) ISBN 0380978083 contains a simile on p. 300: "... small waterfalls beside the graveyard and, along with the wind screaming through the gaps in the drystone wall like a Stockhausen composition, almost drowned out the vicar's words ..."

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Stockhausen in popular culture

Stockhausen is among the figures on the cover of the Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. For other uses, see Sgt. ...

In the 1978 Italian movie "Dove vai in vacanza?" ("Where are you going on holiday?"), in the episode "Le vacanze intelligenti" ("The smart vacations") directed by Alberto Sordi, a group of intellectuals confuse the snoring of the two main characters (a couple, the actors are Alberto Sordi and Anna Longhi) with music by Stockhausen. Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, (June 15, 1920, Rome - February 25, 2003, Rome) was a beloved Italian actor and a film director. ...

In the television sitcom Man about the House, series 2, episode 5 ("Two Foot Two, Eyes of Blue"), Jo's new boyfriend Philip takes her to a Stockhausen concert. She is not amused, but Philip is undaunted, explaining that she just doesn't yet appreciate his "exploration of the spatial possibilities of the twelve-note idiom, and his use of variant states patterned together." Man About the House was a British sitcom, made by Thames Television for ITV. It ran for six series, between August 1973 and April 1976. ...

In a 1985 episode of the satirical puppet-show Spitting Image a sketch speculates about sequels to the hit film Amadeus. The suggestions are (1) "Seb", about Johann Sebastian Bach, (2) "Van", about Ludwig van Beethoven, (3)-(5) "Stocky 1", "Stocky 2" and "Stocky 3" about Karlheinz Stockhausen, and (6) "Lloydy", about Andrew Lloyd Webber. In the first three, the title character is pronounced as being (like Mozart in Amadeus) "a composer who farts a lot", but for Lloyd Webber "a fart who composes a lot." Spitting Image was a satirical puppet show that ran on the United Kingdoms ITV television network from 1984 to 1996. ... Amadeus is a 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman. ... “Bach” redirects here. ... “Beethoven” redirects here. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a highly successful English composer of musical theatre, and also the elder brother of cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. ...

In episode 5 of the second (1991) series of Lovejoy, apprentice Eric protests when Tinker offers 300 pounds to an old gent for a battered square piano. Tinker mildly responds that the young have no appreciation for the finer aspects of music, and strikes what might have been a C-major chord, had the instrument not been used as a potting table in a steamy greenhouse for the better part of a century. Upon hearing the resulting percussive racket, Tink looks up at Eric, smiles brightly, and says: "Stockhausen." There are other articles with similar names; see Lovejoy (disambiguation). ...

Track #2 on the Mysteries of Science 1995 album, Erotic Nature of Automated Universes, is called "Guten tag, Herr Stockhausen", certainly a reference to Stockhausen himself. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

A Sound collage artist goes by the pseudonym Stock, Hausen & Walkman (a parody of both Stockhausen and Stock, Aitken and Waterman). Sound collage is the production of songs, musical compositions, or recordings using portions, or samples, of previously made recordings. ... Stock Aitken Waterman, sometimes known as SAW, were a British songwriting and record producing trio who had great success during the late 1980s and early 1990s with many of their productions. ...

The album Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... by the musical group The Sound of Animals Fighting was heavily influenced by Stockhausen and has a song entitled "Stockhausen, Es Ist Ihr Gehirn, Das (sic) Ich Suche" (German for "Stockhausen, It is your brain (or mind) that I seek"). Also, in the last song "There Can Be No Dispute That Monsters Live Among Us", the lyrics in that song are quotes from Stockhausen's views on modern music. Lover, the Lord has Left Us. ... A musical ensemble is, by definition, a group of three or more musicians who gather to perform music. ... The Sound of Animals Fighting is a California-based progressive rock music group featuring members of Rx Bandits, Circa Survive, Chiodos, Days Away, Finch and The Autumns. ...

Stockhausen is namechecked in the track "I Am Damo Suzuki" by The Fall.

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A reader of a British newspaper (probably The Guardian) devised this anagram of "Karlheinz Stockhausen:" "Kraut shock: Henze slain." For other uses, see Guardian. ... For the game, see Anagrams. ... Hans Werner Henze (born July 1, 1926 in Gütersloh, Westphalia, Germany) is a composer well known for his left-wing political beliefs. ...

The German guitar pop band Kettcar has a song called "Stockhausen, Bill Gates und ich" ("Stockhausen, Bill Gates, and me") in which the singer, in a dreamlike experience, discusses money, art, and women with Bill Gates and Stockhausen while stuck in an elevator with them. Hamburg (Germany) based indie pop outfit. ... For other persons named Bill Gates, see Bill Gates (disambiguation). ...

Criticism

Robin Maconie finds that, "Compared to the work of his contemporaries, Stockhausen’s music has a depth and rational integrity that is quite outstanding. . . . His researches, initially guided by Meyer-Eppler, have a coherence unlike any other composer then or since" (Maconie 1989, 177–78). Maconie also compares Stockhausen to Beethoven: "If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation, then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts" (Maconie 1988), and "As Stravinsky said, one never thinks of Beethoven as a superb orchestrator because the quality of invention transcends mere craftsmanship. It is the same with Stockhausen: the intensity of imagination gives rise to musical impressions of an elemental and seemingly unfathomable beauty, arising from necessity rather than conscious design” (Maconie 1989, 178).

Igor Stravinsky expressed great, but not uncritical enthusiasm for Stockhausen's music in the conversation books with Robert Craft (e.g., Craft and Stravinsky 1960, 118) and for years organised private listening sessions with friends in his home where he played tapes of Stockhausen's latest works (Stravinsky 1984, 356; Craft 2002, 141). In an interview published in March 1968, however, he says of an unidentified person, Igor Stravinsky. ...

I have been listening all week to the piano music of a composer now greatly esteemed for his ability to stay an hour or so ahead of his time, but I find the alternation of note-clumps and silences of which it consists more monotonous than the foursquares of the dullest eighteenth-century music. ([Craft] 1968, 4) (17th century - 18th century - 19th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 18th century refers to the century that lasted from 1701 through 1800. ...

The following October, a report in Sovetskaia Muzyka (Anon. 1968) translated this sentence (and a few others from the same article) into Russian, substituting for the conjunction "but" the phrase "Ia imeiu v vidu Karlkheintsa Shtokkhauzena" ("I am referring to Karlheinz Stockhausen"). When this translation was quoted in Druskin's Stravinsky biography, the field was widened to all of Stockhausen's compositions and adds for good measure, "indeed, works he calls unnecessary, useless and uninteresting”, again quoting from the same Sovetskaia Muzyka article, even though it had made plain that the characterization was of American "university composers" (Druskin 1974, 207).

Early in 1995, BBC Radio 3 sent Stockhausen a package of recordings from contemporary artists Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Scanner and Daniel Pemberton, and asked him for his opinion on the music. In August of that year, Radio 3 reporter Dick Witts interviewed Stockhausen about these pieces for a broadcast in October (subsequently published in the November issue of the British publication The Wire), asking what advice he would give these young musicians. Stockhausen suggested they should give up repetitions, which he does not appreciate, which he found to be "like someone who is stuttering all the time." He further suggested that "one should not serve any existing demands or in particular not commercial values." Stockhausen was most positive about Scanner's music, which he found "very experimental, because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music", but felt "he should transform more what he finds. He leaves it too much in a raw state." Stockhausen suggested an example for each artist from his own works. For Daniel Pemberton, who he criticised for the overuse of tape loops, and whose sense of harmony he found particularly weak, Stockhausen recommended BBC Radio 3 is a radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. ... Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is an electronic music artist, credited with pushing forward the genres of techno, ambient, acid and drum and bass. ... Richie Hawtin (born June 4, 1970) is a Canadian associated with Detroit technos second wave of artists who helped to change the face of electronic music along with peers Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin, Stacey Pullen, John Acquaviva, Daniel Bell and others. ... Look up scanner in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine. ...

He should listen to Kontakte, which has among my works the largest scale of harmonic, unusual and very demanding harmonic relationships. I like to tell the musicians that they should learn from works which already [have] gone through a lot of temptations and have refused to give in to these stylistic or to these fashionable temptations... (Witts 1995)

Stockhausen also suggested that Robin Rimbaud, Scanner, listen to his work Hymnen because, although "he has a good sense of atmosphere", "he should transform more what he finds."; in the work of Aphex Twin (Richard James), he suggested "changing tempi and changing rhythms", and that he listen to Gesang der Jünglinge; and, similarly, he found Plasticman (Richie Hawtin) too rhythmically repetitious, and suggested he listen to Zyklus.

The criticised musicians were then invited to respond, and all but Plasticman obliged. Daniel Pemberton was "very impressed considering the time it was done: the 1960s", but wished that Stockhausen would use more basic repetition: "It would be very good to put some Hip Hop breaks under, actually." He concedes, "I know what he means about loops though; that's because I haven't got much equipment." Scanner found Hymnen (which he had never heard before) "very good actually—better than I expected. At the end there's a recording of him breathing. It's quite uncomfortable—like being inside his head." As to Stockhausen's criticisms of his own music, "I take some of what he said about my music to heart", but he "disagree[s] about repetition: I think, as John Cage said, repetition is a form of change, and it's a concept you either agree or disagree with. I like repetitions." Aphex Twin's reaction to Gesang der Jünglinge: "Mental! I've heard that song before; I like it," but he did not agree with Stockhausen's critique, in that he wishes Stockhausen would "stop making abstract, random patterns you can't dance to. . . . You could dance to Song of the Youth[s], but it hasn't got a groove in it, there's no bassline" (Witts 1995).

References

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External links

• Karlheinz Stockhausen official site
• Aspekte des Seriellen bei Karlheinz Stockhausen by Karlheinz Essl (1989)
• (pdf) Complete list of works by Stockhausen
• Comprehensive Stockhausen Discography
• Stockhausen at Expo 70 in Osaka
• Interview with Stockhausen

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Listening

• Stockhausen website video and audio files
• Epitonic.com: Karlheinz Stockhausen featuring tracks from Mantra