Stockhausen
Subtitle: a biography
By: Michael Kurtz ; translated by Richard Toop.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-; Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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List of works: p. 250-261.