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Karlheinz Stockhausen

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And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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I no longer limit myself.


— Karlheinz Stockhausen


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Did you know about Karlheinz Stockhausen?

He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne and later studied with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. In addition to electronic music—both with and without live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments songs chamber music choral and orchestral music to a cycle of seven full-length operas. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential not only on composers of art music but also on jazz and popular music.

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