Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Biography
Karlheinz Stockhausen 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. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having been called the "father of electronic music", for introducing controlled chance into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
"And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music."
"[The attacks of September 11 were] the greatest work of art in the cosmos … compared to that, we composers are nothing."
"Sir Thomas Beecham was asked if he had ever conducted any Stockhausen. He said, "No, but I once trod in some.""
"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good."
"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo."