Title: Stockhausen : a biography /
Authors: Kurtz, Michael,; Toop, Richard.
Date: 1991
Publisher: Faber and Faber,
Physical description: xvii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC class: M
Abstract: Karlheinz Stockhausen is a unique figure in the history of twentieth-century music. A tireless innovator, his work has always aroused great controversy, as well as attracting a fanatical discipleship. Stockhausen is renowned for his role in establishing European serialism, for his pioneering work in every form of electro-acoustic music - from early musique concrete to computer music - for his exploitation of physical performance space, and in the seven-opera cycle Licht for the integration of sound and movement. Stockhausen the man, however, has largely escaped analysis. . Now Stockhausen: A Biography reveals the personal history of this extraordinary figure. We learn of his boyhood in Cologne, his struggles as a student, his studies with Messiaen in Paris, his exacting and highly individual teaching methods at Darmstadt and Cologne, and the circumstances in which many of his greatest works were composed.
Contents: Introduction: A Sirius Centre in France -- Childhood and Youth 1928-47 -- Writer or Composer 1947-51 -- Awakening after a Musical 'Zero Hour' 1951-3 -- Electronic Music: A Musical Homunculus 1953-5 -- Spatial and Aleatory Music 1955-60 -- From Moment Form to Live Electronics 1961-5 -- 'A Music of All Countries and Races' 1966-8 -- Aus den sieben Tagen 1968-70 -- Music as Gateway to the Spiritual 1970-74 -- New Interpreters, New Instrumental Techniques 1974-7 -- Licht 1977-91.
Notes: GB91-#2144  03july91 List of works: p. 250-261.