Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Klavierstück II"

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2. Klavierstücke II [1'47"]

COMPOSER

Since finishing his studies (1947-51, Cologne University and Hochschule fur Musik), Karlheinz Stockhausen, born August 22, 1928 near Cologne, has composed KREUZSPIEL for oboe, bass clarinet, piano, 3 percussionists (1951); SPIEL for orchestra (1952); PUNKTE for orchestra (1952-62); KONTRA-PUNKTE for 10 instruments (1952/3); KLAVIERSTUCKE I-IV (1952/3); ELEKTRONISCHE STUDIEN I and II (1953/4); KLAVIERSTUCKE V-X (V-VIII 1954/5, IX-X 1954/61); ZEITMASZE for five woodwinds (1955/6); GRUPPEN for 3 orchestras (1955/7); KLAVIERSTUCK XI (1956); GESANG DER JUNGLINGE (1955/6); ZYKLUS for 1 percussionist (1959); CARRE for 4 orchestras and choirs (1959/60); REFRAIN for 3 performers (1959); KONTAKTE for electronic sounds, piano and percussion instruments (1959/60); ORIGINALE, musical theater (1961); MOMENTE for soprano solo, 4 choir groups and 13 instrumentalists (1962/4); PLUS-MINUS, twice seven pages for elaboration (1963); MIKROPHONIE I for tam-tam, 2 microphones and 2 filters (1964); MIXTUR for orchestra, 4 sine-wave generators and ring modulators (1964); MIKROPHONIE II for 12 singers, 4 ring modulators and Hammond organ (1965); SOLO for one melody instrument and magnetic tape recorder (1966); TELEMUSIK (1966); ADIEU for wind quintet (1966); PROZESSION for tam-tam, viola, electronium, piano, microphones, filters and potentiometers. All works have been published by UNIVERSAL EDITION, Vienna-Zurich-London.

Writings: TEXTE, Vol. I, zur elektronischen und instrumentalen Musik; TEXTE, Vol. II, zu eigenen Werken, zur Kunst anderer, Aktuelles (DuMont Schauberg, Cologne); numerous articles in periodicals, principally in "Die Reihe" (Universal Edition, Vienna; Theodore Presser Co., Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania).

First Stockhausen monograph: K. H. Worner (P.J. Tonger, Rodenkirchen/Rhine, 1963).

Since 1955, instructor at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music; since 1963, instructor at the Cologne Courses for New Music; 1963, teacher of composition at the conservatory in Basel, Switzerland; 1964, visiting professor of composition at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, U.S.A.; 1966/7, leader of a composition class at the University of California Davis; since 1953, permanent participant in the Studio for Electronic Music of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk [West German Radio] in Cologne, where he has been the artistic director since 1962. Regular concert tours as director and performer of his own works in all European countries, the U.S.A. and Canada; 1966, five-month stay in Japan (for composition) and Asian tour.