{"id":589,"date":"2007-12-07T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-07T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=589"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:19:22","slug":"karlheinz-stockhausen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/12\/karlheinz-stockhausen.html","title":{"rendered":"Karlheinz Stockhausen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">We weren&#8217;t expecting this: <a href=\"http:\/\/sohothedog.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/fl-2007.html\">Stockhausen<\/a> died on Wednesday.  Having completed his brobdingnagian opera cycle <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Licht<\/span> (but not having heard the last two of the seven operas performed in entirety), he had commenced <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Klang<\/span>, a cycle of 24 works, one for each hour of the day.  He figured he had another five years of work in him at least, and time to finish it.  A friend of mine has either just finished another study course with him, or else was booked in for one next year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pierre Boulez and Stockhausen were the two most prominent figures in Europe&#8217;s post-war musical avant-garde, but while <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.deutschegrammophon.com\/artist\/biography?ART_ID=BOUPI\">Boulez<\/a> and others settled into the musical establishment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockhausen.org\/\">Stockhausen<\/a> passed through with his sights set on a bigger, cosmic prize.   He built up his own private empire to realise goals that seemed impossibly ambitious, intimidatingly grandiose, childishly impractical.  Since he started work on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Licht<\/span>, we probably can&#8217;t yet fully assess the achievement of the last 30 years of his career.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I first read the news at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequenza21.com\/index.php\/637\">Sequenza21<\/a>, which has reader comments and some prime Stockhausen video.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therestisnoise.com\/2007\/12\/karlheinz-stock.html\">The Rest Is Noise<\/a> has more links, including to audio of his landmark 1956 electronic composition, <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.medienkunstnetz.de\/works\/gesang-der-juenglinge\/\">Gesang der J\u00fcnglinge<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Update:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/sandow\/2007\/12\/unappreciated.html\">Greg Sandow<\/a> expands on the idea I touched on above, that for such a central figure, Stockhausen was strangely isolated from the music world he had so strongly influenced.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.analogartsensemble.net\/2007\/12\/sound-cocktails-all-around.html\">ANABlog<\/a> has full audio of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Gesang der J\u00fcnglinge<\/span>, with a brief discussion of the piece.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We weren&#8217;t expecting this: Stockhausen died on Wednesday. Having completed his brobdingnagian opera cycle Licht (but not having heard the last two of the seven operas performed in entirety), he had commenced Klang, a cycle of 24 works, one for each hour of the day. He figured he had another five years of work in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}