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List Of Compositions By Karlheinz Stockhausen
A list of compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen (alphabetical by title—a link to a chronological list is given at the end). A * '' Adieu'', for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn), Nr. 21 (1966) * ''Alphabet für Liège'' ("Alphabet for Liège"), Nr. 36 (1972) **''Am Himmel wandre ich'' ("In the Sky I Am Walking", American Indian Songs), Nr. 36 (1972) * '' Amour'', 5 pieces for clarinet, Nr. 44 (1976) **'' Amour'', for flute, Nr. 44 (1976/81) **"Vier Sterne" ("Four Stars") from '' Amour'', for cello, Nr. 44 (1976/98) **'' Amour'', for saxophone, Nr. 44 (1976/2003) *''Atmen gibt das Leben'' ("Breathing Gives Life"), choral opera with orchestra (or orchestra on tape), Nr. 39 (1974/77) * ''Aus den sieben Tagen'' ("From the Seven Days"), 15 texts for intuitive music (performable separately), Nr. 26 (1968) #''Richtige Dauern'' ("Right Durations"), for circa 4 players #''Unbegrenzt'' ("Unlimited"), for ensemble #''Verbindung'' ("Connection"), for ensemble #''Tref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance ( aleatory techniques) into serial composition, and for musical spatialization. He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular music. His works, composed over a period of nearly sixty years, eschew traditional forms. In addition to electronic music—both with and without live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an extraordinary event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, mela, or eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the advent of mass-produced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klang (Stockhausen)
''Klang'' ()—''Die 24 Stunden des Tages'' (Sound—The 24 Hours of the Day) 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 (opus) numbers 81–101. History and character After having spent 27 years composing the opera-cycle ''Licht'' (1977–2004), Stockhausen felt he was shifting his focus from the visible world of the eyes—''Licht'' is the Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresco (Stockhausen)
''Fresco'' ("wall sounds for meditation") is an orchestral composition written in 1969 by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen as foyer music for an evening-long retrospective programme of his music presented simultaneously in three auditoriums of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn. It is Nr. 29 in his catalogue of works, and a performance takes about five hours. History In October 1968 Volker Wangenheim, Generalmusikdirektor (GMD) for Bonn, offered Stockhausen all of the rooms of the Beethovenhalle in Bonn for an evening concert of his music. In addition, he suggested that Stockhausen might consider writing a new piece for the Bonn Orchestra, though he could offer only three rehearsals, and warned that Bonn did not have much money for expenses. Wangenheim also wrote that he had heard about Stockhausen's ''Ensemble'' and '' Musik für ein Haus'' projects at Darmstadt in 1967 and 1968, implying that he hoped for something along the same lines. Stockhausen proposed an evening-long pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formel (Stockhausen)
''Formel'' (Formula) is a composition for chamber orchestra by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written while he was still a student in 1951. It is given the number in his catalog of works, indicating that it is amongst the pieces preceding the composition he recognised as his first mature work, Nr. 1 ''Kontra-Punkte''. History ''Formel'', originally titled ''Studie für Orchester'' (Study for Orchestra), was written in November and December 1951 immediately after ''Kreuzspiel'' and was intended to have been the first movement of a three-movement composition. When he completed the other two movements the following year, however, he decided their more punctual style did not fit well with the more thematic character of the intended opening, and the two 1952 movements became the separate composition ''Spiel''. Only twenty years later did Stockhausen retrospectively discover in the early piece similarities to the formula technique he had devised for his then-latest composition, ''Mantra'' (197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Expo (Stockhausen)
''Expo'', for three performers with shortwave radio receivers and a sound projectionist, is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, written in 1969–70. It is Number 31 in the catalogue of the composer's works. Conception ''Expo'' is the penultimate in a series of works dating from the late 1960s which Stockhausen designated as "process" compositions. These works in effect separate the "form" from the "content" by presenting the performers with a series of transformation signs which are to be applied to material that may vary considerably from one performance to the next. In ''Expo'' and three companion works (''Kurzwellen'' for six performers, ''Spiral'' for a soloist, and ''Pole'' for two), this material is to be drawn spontaneously during the performance from short-wave radio broadcasts. The processes, indicated primarily by plus, minus, and equal signs, constitute the composition and, despite the unpredictability of the materials, these processes can be heard from one performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europa-Gruss
''Europa-Gruss'' (Europe Greeting) is a composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen for wind ensemble with optional synthesizers, and is assigned Number 72 in the composer's catalogue of works. It has a duration of about twelve-and-a-half minutes. History The idea of composing the ''Europa-Gruss'' was first suggested to Stockhausen in August 1991, by the sculptor of Breisach. In February of the next year, it was formally commissioned by the mayor of Neuf-Brisach (Breisach’s adjacent French fortress city across the Rhine in Alsace), for the Étoile Sonore Europe Festival, who requested a "Europe Fanfare" or "concerted Europe hymn". Originally titled ''Mittwochs-Gruss'', it was briefly meant to be the "greeting" for the opera ''Mittwoch aus Licht'' and was initially assigned the work number 65 in the composer’s catalogue of works, immediately preceding the four scenes of the opera (provisionally numbered 66–69). By the time the score was completed on 21 July 1992, Stockhausen had de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classical Music Written In Collaboration
In classical music, it is relatively rare for a work to be written in collaboration by multiple composers. This contrasts with popular music, where it is common for more than one person to contribute to the music for a song. Nevertheless, there are instances of collaborative classical music compositions. Collaborations The following list gives some details of classical works written by composers working collaboratively. Opera and operetta * In 1656, ''The Siege of Rhodes'' was written in London, and is considered to be the first English opera. The vocal music is by Henry Lawes, Matthew Locke, and Captain Henry Cooke, and the instrumental music is by Charles Coleman and George Hudson. * In 1721, Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini and George Frideric Handel each wrote one act of the opera ''Muzio Scevola''. * Also in 1721, Michel Richard Delalande and André Cardinal Destouches jointly composed the opera-ballet ''Les élémens''. * Between the 1720s and the 1760s, François Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ensemble (Stockhausen)
''Ensemble'' is a group-composition project devised by Karlheinz Stockhausen for the 1967 Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Twelve composers and twelve instrumentalists participated, and the resulting performance lasted four hours. It is not assigned a work number in Stockhausen's catalogue of works. History For the 1967 Darmstädter Ferienkurse Stockhausen organised a composition seminar during the two-week period preceding the courses proper, in which twelve composers from various countries each developed a composition which was a dialogue to be performed by an instrumentalist and the composer, using either a previously prepared tape of sound materials or a short-wave receiver. This was the first time in the history of the Darmstadt Courses that actual composing was formally undertaken within the framework of the courses themselves. The participating composers were paired with the instrumentalists (eleven members of the Ensemble Hudba Dneska (Bratislava), directed by Ladislav Kupkovič ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freitag Aus Licht
(Friday from Light), the main body of which is also titled ''Freitag-Versuchung'' (Friday Temptation), is the fifth to be composed of the seven operas that comprise ''Licht'' (Light), by Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was the last of the operas to receive a staged production with the composer's involvement. History was commissioned by Udo Zimmermann of the Oper Leipzig, which gave the staged premiere on 12 September 1996. Three subsequent performances were given on September 13, 14, and 15. The musical direction and sound projection was done by the composer. The staging was done by Uwe Wand. Stage, costume, object and lighting designs were from Johannes Conen. Johannes Bönig did the choreography. In addition to the soloists, the choir of the Leipzig Opera, the children's choirs of the Oper Leipzig and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, and the children's orchestra of the Johann Sebastian Bach music school of Leipzig performed in the original production. The production was filmed for a docume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
