page_title: Klang (Stockhausen)
section_title: Twenty-first Hour: Paradies
hierarchical_section_title: Klang (Stockhausen) / Twenty-first Hour: Paradies
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Die Laeiszhalle am Johannes-Brahms-Platz 20 in der Hamburger Neustadt wurde von 1904 bis 1908 als Konzerthaus nach Plänen von Martin Haller und Wilhelm Emil Meerwein erbaut. Finanziert wurde die Halle aus einem Vermächtnis des 1901 verstorbenen Reeders Carl Heinrich Laeisz und einer Spende seiner Witwe Sophie. This is a photograph of an architectural monument. It is on the list of cultural monuments of Hamburg, no. 616
context_page_description: Klang —Die 24 Stunden des Tages is a cycle of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, on which he worked from 2004 until his death in 2007. It was intended to consist of 24 chamber-music compositions, each representing one hour of the day, with a different colour systematically assigned to every hour. The cycle was unfinished when the composer died, so that the last three "hours" are lacking. The 21 completed pieces include solos, duos, trios, a septet, and Stockhausen's last entirely electronic composition, Cosmic Pulses. The fourth composition is a theatre piece for a solo percussionist, and there are also two auxiliary compositions which are not part of the main cycle. The completed works bear the work numbers 81–101.
context_section_description: Paradies (Paradise), for flute and electronic music (layers 3, 2, 1 from Cosmic Pulses) 2007 (18 mins., 02 secs.). Work number 101. The specified colour is HKS 31 (purple) (Stockhausen 2009e, cover and II).
  Paradies was premiered by Kathinka Pasveer, flute, and Bryan Wolf, sound direction, at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, at the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg on 24 August 2009 (Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik. 2009, 9). Paradies was commissioned by the North German Radio (NDR), Hamburg (Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik. 2010, 10 & 38).
  According to the Urantia Book, "Paradise is the gigantic nuclear Isle of absolute stability which rests motionless at the very heart of the magnificent eternal universe" (Urantia Foundation 1955, 152).
  As with the preceding pieces, Paradies has a text describing itself. In this case, it is spoken by Kathinka Pasveer on the tape, mixed with the electronic music. The 25 short lines articulate the 24 musical sections of the work. As in Orvonton, after announcing the piece in the first seven lines, the German words from section 8 onward analyse the stages of the work itself: "24 lines of notes for the flute /
  from 1 to 24 pitches / of the original row / source of all melodies / each line, a different low note / fragments of the groups / jumps in the entire space / fitting dynamics / articulation free / legato or staccato / pauses ad libitum / flexible tempo / one insert per line / for the fantasy / and the play / and the joy / for the magic / the eternal GOD" (Stockhausen 2009e, I).
caption: The Laeiszhalle, Hamburg, where Paradies was premiered in 2009
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