Word: karlheinz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respect for the "abstract feelings" of modern twelve-tone music and for its distance from the "material world," this sympathy has its limits. Swoboda feels that "every system is in the end based on tonality," and ridicules the break with traditional training in composition of Karlheinz Stockhausen...
...Raisins. No two aleatory composers get their random results in quite the same way. Cage, who is regarded as particularly ingenious, determined the notes for his Music for Piano by following the pattern of the "imperfections in the paper on which the music was written." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is perhaps the most influential of Europe's aleatory composers, instructs performers to play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever he wants...
Bread & the Wafer. Varèse began experimenting with sounds of the machine age-coaxing unconventional sonorities out of conventional instruments-long before such European electro-composers as Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen had spliced their first tape. But partly because his output is so sparse (eleven compositions in 40 years), partly because his European counterparts had electronic equipment to work with before he did, Varèse for a long time remained, by his own definition, "a musical bum." Large-scale recognition did not come until 1958, when his Poème Electronique, his only completely noninstrumental composition, thundered...
...other composers whose New Music was performed included the German, Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose recent Zyklus for one percussionist appeared on the first half of the program. Designed to combine "the elements of free and determinate performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium...
...postwar generation of German composers consists principally of Hans Werner Henze and Karlheinz Stockhausen, two talented avantgardists. Among conductors, only Wolfgang Sawallisch stands out. But the articles' authors (Music Instructors Wilhelm Maler, Wolfgang Fortner and Wilhelm Twittenhoff) are most worried by the lack of instrumentalists. Not since World War II has a German contestant won first prize at a major international music competition, while Russia and the U.S., they point out, have virtually a corner on the market...