Lecture 1 Musical Forming

Karlheinz Stockhausen 22 August 1928 5 December 2007 was a German composer widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries Another critic calls him one of the great visionaries of 20thcentury music He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music aleatory controlled chance in serial composition and musical spatialization February 13th 1972 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London Excerpts from KONTRAPUNKTE GRUPPEN GESANG DER JÜNGLINGE ZEITMAßZE ZYKLUS KREUZSPIEL MANTRA CARRÉ