Saturday, 8. December 2007
Topic: MUSIK - on December 8, 2007 at 12:19:00 PM CET
Stockhausen, prolific music modernist, dies aged 79
Karlheinz Stockhausen, a controversial giant of musical modernism whose works were seldom embraced by mainstream concert audiences, has died at the age of 79, it was announced yesterday.
Prolific, whether in fashion or out of it, he composed 362 works, including the world's longest opera, Licht, a sequence of seven pieces, one for every day of the week. The work lasts 29 hours. News of his death was released by the clarinettist Suzanne Stephens and flautist Kathinka Pasveer, two "companions" who had been associated with him for more than 30 years and performed many of his works.
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