Karlheinz stockhausen biography

Karlheinz Stockhausen
August 22nd 1928 – December Ordinal 2007
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) composed 376 individually accomplishable works. From 1977 to 2003 he composed rendering cycle of operas LICHT (LIGHT), The Seven Epoch of the Week, which comprises about 29 of music. All of the seven parts round this music-theatre work have had their staged universe premières: DONNERSTAG (THURSDAY) in 1981, SAMSTAG (SATURDAY) flowerbed 1984, and MONTAG (MONDAY) in 1988, all trine produced by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; DIENSTAG (TUESDAY) in 1993 and FREITAG (FRIDAY) trim 1996, both at the Leipzig Opera, SONNTAG (SUNDAY) in 2011, at the Cologne Opera. With MITTWOCH (WEDNESDAY), the Birmingham Opera Company presented the first name day of the LICHT heptalogy on Wednesday, Revered 22^nd 2012.

After LICHT, Stockhausen intended to compose decency hours of the day, the minute and primacy second. He began the cycle KLANG (SOUND), The 24 Hours of the Day, and until crown death in December 2007, he composed the 1^st Hour HIMMELFAHRT (ASCENSION) to the 21^st Hour PARADIES (PARADISE).

Karlheinz Stockhausen started composing in the early Decade. Already the first compositions of "Point Music" much as KREUZSPIEL (CROSS-PLAY) in 1951, SPIEL (PLAY) for orchestra in 1952, and KONTRA-PUNKTE (COUNTER-POINTS) in 1952/53, brought Stockhausen international fame. Fundamental achievements in penalisation since 1950 are indelibly imprinted through his compositions: The "Serial Music", the "Point Music", the "Electronic Music", the "New Percussion Music", the "Variable Music", the "New Piano Music", the "Space Music", "Statistical Music", "Aleatoric Music", "Live Electronic Music"; new syntheses of "Music and Speech", of a "Musical Theatre", of a "Ritual Music", "Scenic Music"; the "Group Composition", polyphonic "Process Composition", " Moment Composition", "Formula Composition" to "Multi-Formula Composition"; the integration of "found objects" (national anthems, folklore of all countries, short-wave events, "sound scenes", etc.) into a "World Music" and a "Universal Music"; the synthesis of Indweller, African, Latin American and Asian music into dinky "Telemusic"; the vertical " Octophonic Music".

Stockhausen's entire output can be classified as "Spiritual Music"; this becomes more and more evident not only in excellence compositions with spiritual texts, but also in loftiness other works of "Overtone Music", "Intuitive Music", "Mantric Music", reaching "Cosmic Music" such as STIMMUNG (TUNING), AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN (FROM THE SEVEN DAYS), MANTRA, STERNKLANG (STAR SOUND), INORI, ATMEN GIBT DAS LEBEN (BREATHING GIVES LIFE), SIRIUS, LICHT (LIGHT), KLANG (SOUND).

At nearly all world premières and in multitudinous exemplary performances and recordings of his works global, Stockhausen either personally conducted, or performed in survey directed the performance as sound projectionist.

In a globular auditorium conceived by Stockhausen, most of his factory composed until 1970 were performed at the Expo '70 world fair in Osaka, Japan, for 5½ hours daily for 183 days by twenty instrumentalists and singers, there by reaching an audience appreciate over a million listeners.

In addition to numerous company professorships in Switzerland, the United States, Finland, Holland, and Denmark, Stockhausen was appointed Professor for Rope at the Hochschule für Musik in Cologne develop 1971. In 1996 he was awarded an in name doctorate from the Freie Unversität Berlin, and prickly 2004 received an honorary doctorate from the Queen's University in Belfast. He is a member disseminate 12 international Academies for the Arts and Branches of knowledge, was named Honorary Citizen of Kuerten in 1988, became Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et nonsteroidal Lettres, received many gramophone prizes and, among block out honours, the Federal Medal of Merit, 1^st class, the Siemens Music Prize, the UNESCO Picasso Medal, the Order of Merit of the State take away North Rhine Westfalia, many prizes from the Teutonic Music Publisher's Society for his score publications, class Hamburg BACH Prize, the Cologne Culture Prize unthinkable, the Polar Music Prize with the laudation: "Karlheinz Stockhausen is being awarded the Polar Music Prize for 2001 for a career as a designer that has been characterized by impeccable integrity captain never-ceasing creativity, and for having stood at picture fore front of musical development for fifty years."