Stockhausen: A Biography - Hardcover

Kurtz, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571143237 ISBN 13: 9780571143238

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0571143237
• ISBN 13: 9780571143238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288