[silence] Composer Stockhausen dies aged 79 | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

[Ralph Lichtensteiger]

dear all,
sad news....
Karlheinz Stockhausen has died at the age of 79, it was announced today.

Music I always enjoyed is his composition "Mantra" for two pianos and  
electronics (1970)...

Composer Stockhausen dies aged 79 | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2224071,00.html

Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - music: Karlheinz Stockhausen: 1922-2007
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/12/karlheinz_stockhausen.html

"In 1958 he made his first visit to the USA, and around this time his  
music became more relaxed, both in its density of events and in its  
notational exactitude. This was partly a result of Cage's influence;  
partly it came from the experience of electronic music, which  
suggested a different way of hearing, tuning in to sound events  
rather than expecting them to be items in some pattern. Hence the  
comparatively leisurely pace of Carré for four choral-orchestral  
groups (1960), Kontakte for piano, percussion and tape (1960) and  
Momente for soprano, choir and instruments (1964, extended 1972).  
Then the habit of working with sound as a substance led to a period  
of virtual concentration on electronic pieces, many of them written  
for the performing group with whom Stockhausen toured: Mikrophonie I 
(1964), Prozession (1967), Kurzwellen (1968), Aus den sieben Tagen  
(1968), these gradually relinquishing notation to the point where the  
last work consists only of prose poems designed to stimulate  
intuitive music-making. There were also, however, major works  
composed on tape: Telemusik (1966), created during a revelatory visit  
to Japan, and Hymnen (1967), both using recordings from around the  
world." — The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music


best,
Ralph Lichtensteiger
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