Stockhausen on Music: Lectures and Interviews - Hardcover

Stockhausen, Karlheinz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714528870 ISBN 13: 9780714528878

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

A modern musical genius speaks out in a unique collection of interviews, lectures and statements.

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Review:

'Stockhausen's uncompromising attitude to conventional aesthetics has made him one of the world's most admired musicians.' --The Independent

'The great innovator of the 1950s and 1960s is still a fountain of ideas. Stockhausen on Music shows the extraordinary range of his mind.' --The Sunday Times

'Let there be no doubt that he is a giant, a monster cartographer of massive new spaces.' --Tempo

About the Author:

Karlheinz Stockhausen was born in 1928 in Mödrath, near Cologne. His famous musical compositions include LIGHT, Kreuzpiel (Cross-play), Spiel (Play) and Kontra-Punkte (Counter-point). He conducted most of his works in a specially constructed spherical auditorium in 1970 in Osaka, Japan, at the World Fair. Stockhausen died in 2007. Robin Maconie is a musicologist and teacher. He currently lives in New Zealand.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0714528870
• ISBN 13: 9780714528878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Maconie Robin