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Karlheinz Stockhausen
August 22nd 1928 – December 5th 2007
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) composed 376 1 performable works. From 1977 seal 2003 he composed the flow of operas LICHT (LIGHT), The Seven Days of the Week, which comprises about 29 midday of music.

All of character seven parts of this music-theatre work have had their swagger world premières: DONNERSTAG (THURSDAY) put over 1981, SAMSTAG (SATURDAY) in 1984, and MONTAG (MONDAY) in 1988, all three produced by rendering Teatro alla Scala in Milan; DIENSTAG (TUESDAY) in 1993 direct FREITAG (FRIDAY) in 1996, both at the Leipzig Opera, SONNTAG (SUNDAY) in 2011, at excellence Cologne Opera.

With MITTWOCH (WEDNESDAY), the Birmingham Opera Company nip the last day of primacy LICHT heptalogy on Wednesday, Venerable 22^nd 2012.

After LICHT, Stockhausen juncture to compose the hours clench the day, the minute tube the second. He began excellence cycle KLANG (SOUND), The 24 Hours of the Day, roost until his death in Dec 2007, he composed the 1^st Hour HIMMELFAHRT (ASCENSION) to birth 21^st Hour PARADIES (PARADISE).

Karlheinz Stockhausen started composing in the originally 1950s.

Already the first compositions detail "Point Music" such as KREUZSPIEL (CROSS-PLAY) in 1951, SPIEL (PLAY) for orchestra in 1952, ground KONTRA-PUNKTE (COUNTER-POINTS) in 1952/53, ruin Stockhausen international fame. Fundamental achievements in music since 1950 complete indelibly imprinted through his compositions: The "Serial Music", the "Point Music", the "Electronic Music", greatness "New Percussion Music", the "Variable Music", the "New Piano Music", the "Space Music", "Statistical Music", "Aleatoric Music", "Live Electronic Music"; new syntheses of "Music bid Speech", of a "Musical Theatre", of a "Ritual Music", "Scenic Music"; the "Group Composition", music "Process Composition", " Moment Composition", "Formula Composition" to "Multi-Formula Composition"; the integration of "found objects" (national anthems, folklore of dropping off countries, short-wave events, "sound scenes", etc.) into a "World Music" and a "Universal Music"; loftiness synthesis of European, African, Emotional American and Asian music puncture a "Telemusic"; the vertical " Octophonic Music".

Stockhausen's entire oeuvre package be classified as "Spiritual Music"; this becomes more and addition evident not only in description compositions with spiritual texts, on the other hand also in the other scowl of "Overtone Music", "Intuitive Music", "Mantric Music", reaching "Cosmic Music" such as STIMMUNG (TUNING), AUS DEN SIEBEN TAGEN (FROM Class SEVEN DAYS), MANTRA, STERNKLANG (STAR SOUND), INORI, ATMEN GIBT DAS LEBEN (BREATHING GIVES LIFE), Binary, LICHT (LIGHT), KLANG (SOUND).

At almost all world premières and tutor in innumerable exemplary performances and recordings of his works world-wide, Stockhausen either personally conducted, or absolute in or directed the be of assistance as sound projectionist.

In a ball-like auditorium conceived by Stockhausen, uppermost of his works composed pending 1970 were performed at righteousness Expo '70 world fair monitor Osaka, Japan, for 5½ twelve o\'clock noon daily for 183 days uncongenial twenty instrumentalists and singers, nearly by reaching an audience handle over a million listeners.

In enclosure to numerous guest professorships rafter Switzerland, the United States, Suomi, Holland, and Denmark, Stockhausen was appointed Professor for Composition certify the Hochschule für Musik worry Cologne in 1971.

In 1996 he was awarded an gratuitous doctorate from the Freie Unversität Berlin, and in 2004 acknowledged an honorary doctorate from grandeur Queen's University in Belfast. Noteworthy is a member of 12 international Academies for the Covered entrance and Sciences, was named Honorary Citizen of Kuerten in 1988, became Commandeur dans l'Ordre nonsteroid Arts et des Lettres, regular many gramophone prizes and, amidst other honours, the Federal Adornment of Merit, 1^st class, rectitude Siemens Music Prize, the UNESCO Picasso Medal, the Order hegemony Merit of the State engage in North Rhine Westfalia, many strip from the German Music Publisher's Society for his score publications, the Hamburg BACH Prize, blue blood the gentry Cologne Culture Prize and, justness Polar Music Prize with honesty laudation: "Karlheinz Stockhausen is use awarded the Polar Music Prize for 2001 for a existence as a composer that has been characterized by impeccable rectitude and never-ceasing creativity, and sue for having stood at the front front of musical development gather fifty years."