Goodbye Karl Stockhausen - Experimental Composer Dies At 79
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Experimental composer Karl Stockhausen passed away on December 5th at home in Germany. He was 79 years old. In a loving statement made by his publisher Stockhausen-Verlag:
The prolific artist composed 362 individually performable works, published by Universal Edition in Vienna and Stockhausen-Verlag in Germany. Many of his written works were published by the Stockhausen Foundation for Music. According to an article on pitchrf*#k:
IN FRIENDSHIP and gratitude for everything that he has given to us personally and to humanity through his love and his music, we bid FAREWELL to Karlheinz Stockhausen, who lived to bring celestial music to humans, and human music to the celestial beings, so that Man may listen to GOD and GOD may hear His children.On December 5th he ascended with JOY through HEAVEN’S DOOR, in order to continue to compose in PARADISE with COSMIC PULSES in eternal HARMONY, as he had always hoped to do: You, who summon me to Heaven, Eva, Mikael and Maria, let me eternally compose music for Heaven’s Father-Mother, GOD creator of Cosmic Music.
The prolific artist composed 362 individually performable works, published by Universal Edition in Vienna and Stockhausen-Verlag in Germany. Many of his written works were published by the Stockhausen Foundation for Music. According to an article on pitchrf*#k:The 362 works Stockhausen composed include the world's longest opera cycle (Licht, completed in 2003), the first annotated and published piece of electronic music (1954's Electronic Study II), and a piece for string quartet that also called for four helicopters (1993's Helicopter String Quartet). Like John Cage, he demonstrated a fascination with aleatory composition, that which accounts for an element of chance. Early in his career he was also a proponent of serialism, composition based on mathematical formulas.He will be sadly missed, especially in the world of experimental electronic music, but his art and influence will live for a very long time in this celestial sphere.There will be a public farewell ceremony on Thursday December 13th in the chapel of Waldfriedhof in Kuerten before he is buried in the Waldfriedhof (forest cemetery), also in Kuerten.
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