| Description |
xvii, 270 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: A Sirius Centre in France -- 1. Childhood and Youth 1928-47 -- 2. Writer or Composer 1947-51 -- 3. Awakening after a Musical 'Zero Hour' 1951-3 -- 4. Electronic Music: A Musical Homunculus 1953-5 -- 5. Spatial and Aleatory Music 1955-60 -- 6. From Moment Form to Live Electronics 1961-5 -- 7. 'A Music of All Countries and Races' 1966-8 -- 8. Aus den sieben Tagen 1968-70 -- 9. Music as Gateway to the Spiritual 1970-74 -- 10. New Interpreters, New Instrumental Techniques 1974-7 -- 11. Licht 1977-91 |
| Summary |
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 |
GB91-#2144 03july91 |
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List of works: p. 250-261 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-249), a list of works (pages 250-261) and index |
| Subject |
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007.
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Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Toop, Richard, translator
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| LC no. |
92164265 |
| ISBN |
0571143237 |
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