Kreuzspiel (Crossplay) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen written for for oboe, bass clarinet, piano and three percussionists in 1951. Premiered at Darmstadt in the summer of 1952 where the work, according to Stockhausen, "was violently interrupted by the public". With characteristic bravado, he claims, "I knew when I wrote it that it would sound like nothing else in the world". Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22, 1928) is a contemporary composer. ... Modern Oboe The Oboe is a musical instrument of the woodwind double reed family. ... A typical Bass clarinet The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. ... This article is about the modern musical instrument. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ... 1951 was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Map of Germany showing Darmstadt Darmstadt is a city in the Bundesland (federal state) of Hesse in Germany. ... 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Music 680, Fall 2005: Special Topics in Music Theory - Algorithmic Composition Lecture 2: September 19, 2005 - Serialism I: Stockhausen Stockhausen, Darmstadt, and Kreuzspiel "the shock of the encounter with Messaien and Goeyvaerts is all there in the leap from the from the Sonatina for violin and piano, completed soon before, to Kreuzspiel...
One might even speak of a conversion, specially when what exhilarated both Stockhausen and Goeyvaerts was the spiritual dimension of their work: the possibility of liberating, more than creating, sound structures which would have nothing human in their composition, which would be images of divine unity.
Kreuzspiel flies free from the thematic-harmonic continuity that Schoenberg had wanted to preserve, and does so not by punishing that continuity, as Boulez had done, but by ignoring it." -- register as a crucial counter-example here?
Kreuzspiel premiered at Darmstadt in the summer of 1952 where, according to Stockhausen, the work "was violently interrupted by the public." With characteristic bravado, he claims, "I knew when I wrote it that it would sound like nothing else in the world."
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