Karlheinz Stockhausen
Birthday: 1928-08-22
Place of Birth: Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany
Biography: Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is most known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition, and musical spatialization.
Movies
The Seventh Door
A documentary about the life and work of the Hungarian composer and conductor, Peter Eotvos....
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The Great Rehearsals: Momente
Filmed during rehearsals for the premiere of Stockhausen's monumental work Momente. The revealing re...
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Helicopter String Quartet
One morning, the late Karlheinz Stockhausen awoke from a dream that told him to take to the sky. Sto...
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Modulations
Less a documentary than a primer on all electronic music. Featuring interviews with nearly every maj...
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Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko
For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he fi...
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Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of ...
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Eldorado
Olivier Assayas’ Eldorado is a riveting documentary chronicling the efforts of Ballet Preljocaj to c...
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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the ha...
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Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
This fascinating film documents the U.S. premiere production of Originale, a Happening by German com...
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Lecture 1 - (Musical Forming)
Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged ...
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Mikrophonie I
Studio recording of Mikrophonie I with the Stockhausen-Ensemble. Short introduction by Stockhausen i...
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In Absentia
A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spo...
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Cornelius Cardew: 1936-1981
Assesses the contribution made by British avant-garde composer, Cornelius Cardew, to contemporary mu...
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