STOCKHAUSEN TEXTS
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CD Reviews by Ingvar Loco Nordin
Goodbye Karlheinz Stockhausen by Holger Czukay
Note from Suzanne Stephens
about MIXTUR (PDF)
Review of FREUDE from Dusted Magazine By Marc Medwin
DIE ZEIT - Ins Schwarze
Karlheinz Stockhausen trifft größenwahnsinnig und humorvoll immer wieder auf die Zwölf.
Sein Orchesterwerk "Gruppen" von 1958 ist eine Eintrittskarte in die Welt der Neuen Musik.
From dazeddigital.com - Looping the Loop: Karlheinz Stockhausen
Written by: Gary Weasel
I'd Love To Turn You On to: Stockhausen
The Prophetic Music of Stockhausen
by CHRISTOPHER DELAURENTI
REVIEW: classicalsource.com - Stockhausen Mixtur by: Timothy Ball
REVIEW: Grooves-Karlheinz Stockhausen - Sonntags Abschied - Stockhausen Verlag
EXCLUSIVE!
Read the interview with Stockhausen the Guardian DID NOT publish. (PDF)
Specialradio.net Interview with Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen Wows at Numusic Festival, Day Three 27 Aug. 2005
OPERNWELT - Editorial 06.2005
What’s the frequency, Karlheinz?
EXCLUSIVE TRANSLATIONS!
Freibrief an die Jugend (Charter for the Youth) was written by K. Stockhausen on June 16th 1968 for the Journal
Musical (Paris) which had requested a text entitled ”Charter for…”. It was published in German in the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung a few days later and in Volume 3 of Stockhausen’s TEXTE ZUR MUSIK / TEXTS ON MUSIC
1963–1970 (pages 292–295) in 1971.
Freibrief an die Jugend (Charter for the Youth) PDF
WELTMUSIK (World Music) was written by K. Stockhausen on April 8, 1973 for ”Musik international. Information
über Jazz, Pop, außer-europäische Musik”, ed. E Pütz & H.W. Schmidt = ”Die Garbe” V, Cologne 1975. Excerpts
first appeared in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on November 17, 1973. Printed unabridged in ”Musik und
Bildung” (No. 1, 6th year, 1974) and in ”Universitas” (No. 6, 31st year, 1976). Published in Vol. 4 of Stockhausen’s
TEXTE ZUR MUSIK / TEXTS ON MUSIC 1970–1977 (pp. 468–476) in 1978.
Abridged English translation by Tim Nevill published in Towards a Cosmic Music (Element Books, 1989).
The present translation is a retranslation by Tim Nevill, revised and edited by Suzanne Stephens. It will be published
by the Stockhausen Foundation for Music in the forthcoming English translation of TEXTE ZUR MUSIK Vol. 4.
Stockhausen 75 - Work List, Biography and Selected Films
Michel Rigoni - LICHT DE STOCKHAUSEN (French)
Eulogy for Annette Meriweather by Suzee Stephens
To the International Music Council (PDF 149k)
This article is Stockhausen's reply to 25 questions posed by the
International Music Council and is dated November 21, 1984
Originally published in the Fall-Winter 1985 Perspectives of New Music
"this is an important text" - Stockhausen
Introduction to the PIANO PIECES
Comes awakening, comes time -
About the PIANO PIECES
Clavier Music 1992
Stockhausen Talks About The Piano
Translated by Jerome Kohl
Perspectives of New Music, vol. 31, no. 2
(Summer 1993)
Electronic Music For KATHINKA's CHANT as
LUCIFER's REQUIEM (PDF 776 K)
Translated by Jerome Kohl
Perspectives of New Music, Spring-Summer 1995
A Note on the STOCKHAUSEN PROBLEM
(PDF 314 K) by Ronald C.Read and Lily Yen
Reprinted from the JOURNAL OF
COMBINATORIAL THEORY - October 1996
Talking to the Composer
Karlheinz Stockhausen (GEMA)
INTERVIEWS
STOCKHAUSEN OR THE METAMORPHOSES OF CREATIVE VITALITY (PDF format)
Determinism and indeterminism throughout his work
by
JEAN-CLAUDE ELOY
Full English Version
Full French Version
The Timeless Power of the Divine
Stockhausen in conversation March 1999 by Ken Hollings.
The article originally appeared in The Wire Magazine, issue #184 June 1999.
From Tape Loops To MIDI - Stockhausen's 40 Years Of Electronic Music
by Michael Manion
"From his landmark electronic work, Gesang der Jünglinge
(Song of the Youths) from 1955/56 to his MIDI intensive opera,
Dienstag aus Licht (Tuesday from Light) from 1988-91,
German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen has created some of
the most important and influential music of this century."
LICHT aus Stockhausen by Malcolm Ball
Ball reveals an exclusive interview with the giant of 20th
century music Karlheinz Stockhausen - First published in
the contemporary music magazine AVANT Issue 5.
Karlheinz Stockhausen By David Paul
Orginally published in SECONDS #44
This is possibly the best interview ever done with Stockhausen,
a must read for any Stockhausen fan. Thanks to Seconds Magazine
More Questions by David Paul for Stockhausen, May 9th 1997
An interview of Stockhausen by Björk
A reminicience by Holger Czukay,
one of the founders of the famous
German band, CAN
Girl's Procession (of MONDAY from LIGHT)
Questions and Answers on Intuitive Music
This discussion took place during the lecture Live Electronic and Intuitive Music
given on November 15th 1971 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London.
The lecture with discussion was filmed [Allied Artists, London], and was transcribed
from the film. Preceding the discussion, Stockhausen had played a tape recording
of ES and after the discussion played a recording of AUFWÄRTS.
Vibrato between Intuition and Mental Work
(Interview with Richard Dufallo on April 8th 1987 in Kürten; published in the book
Trackings: composers speak with Richard Dufallo, New York 1989, pp. 203-220.)
Download a
containing an interview conducted on
29 April 1990 between STOCKHAUSEN and Christopher Auretta and
Dr. Antonio Manuel Nunes Dos Santos of the University of Lisbon in Portugal.