Karlheinz Stockhausen
August 22, 1928 - December 5, 2007born in Mödrath, Germany, composed during the Contemporary period
Biography
Karlheinz Stockhausen emerged early on as one of the most influential and unique voices in the post-WWII European musical avant-garde and his prominence continued throughout the rest of the twentieth century and into the twenty first. Combining a keen sensitivity to the acoustical realities and possibilities of sound, rigorous and sophisticated compositional methods expanded from integral serialism, innovative theatricality, and a penchant for the mystical, Stockhausen remains one of the most innovative musical personalities to span the turn of this century.
Stockhausen was born in 1928 near Cologne. Orphaned as a teen, he immersed himself in artistic pursuits and showed promise both as a writer and a musician. He took classes at the new music school in Darmstadt with Adorno before moving to Paris, where he studied with Messiaen and met Boulez and Pierre Schaeffer. These encounters, as well as studies in phonetics and communication, proved a crucial influence on his subsequent work at the electronic music studio in Cologne; by the mid-'50s he had secured a spot in the vanguard of both electronic music and integral serialism. During the next decade he forged relationships with some of the most prominent contemporaries, including Kagel, Ligeti, and Cage, and, taking over the reins at the Darmstadt school, mentored such innovative up-and-comers as Cornelius Cardew and La Monte Young.
Yeah man, like Varese could totally like kick the Darmstadt guys butt in a avantgarde cage match man cause like they were total sissies man. My dog is more imaginative than Stockhausen and he doesn't even know what a time signature is. He still drinks his water in 7/8. Plus Stockhausen had to splice in everything. Ionize that suckas....
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many people are appalled by the dissonance of his music, but his impact on modern music is undeniable. many of the early fusionists and industrialis t s credit his avant garde tonalities and rhythmic investigatio n s with inspiring their growth and direction.
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Appalling. And he was serious when he said he was convinced he was a messenger from planet Sirius. I mean really...
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This is even worse. What a Bozo!! Edgar Varese was much much more imaginative and he wrote everything in 4/4 ,3/4 and 2/4 meter signatures. He didn't need to alienate the players like these morons at Darmstad did. Oh, and his Poeme electronique is infinitely more "inspired" than anything the Darmstad bozos wrote, electronic or otherwise.
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