Richard Toop (b.1945, Chichester, England) was Stockhausen’s Teaching Assistant at the Cologne Musikhochschule in 1973-74; since 1975, he has lived in Sydney, Australia. He has published many articles on Stockhausen’s work (in Perspectives of New Music, The Musical Quarterly, Interface, Neue Zeitschrift für Musik etc.), wrote the Stockhausen entry in the Revised New Grove, and translated Vol. 2 of Stockhausen’s Texte, as well as Michael Kurtz’s book on the composer. He is Reader in Musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium (University of Sydney).
Richard toop will analyze the following works:
ADIEU
BASSETSU-TRIO
MITTWOCHS-GRUSS
PIETÀ
PLUS-MINUS
REFRAIN
STOP (STOP UND START)
TELEMUSIK