The only composer to make a 9/11 joke.

Another interesting note about his influences on rock musicians: The German "avant-rock" group Can had 2 members that were actually students of Stockhausen: keyboardist Irmin Schmidt and bassist Holger Czukay. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_(band)

Wish I'd had you as a teacher in college. Love your posts. Thanks.

So glad I saw this . Very well done . Highlighting his contradictions in early complete seriality versus his openness with live performers and also his retouching and like Boulez his need to revise the "already published defined idea" is equally fascinating . I hope you do other recent or living composers. Messiaen was the first to open my ears and he has led to discovery and some appreciation for hundreds living now . Great composers as do all great thinkers in any field I think require immersion . Per Norgard ,Ustvolskaya,Saariaho(easy to listen to but much thinking behind her work) ,Maderna,Berio etc ,even the earlier Skryabin,Schumann &Beethoven and even going back to the early Rennaissance and Baroque requires this immersion; even though there styles may not seem foreign to us today . There is so much disingenuiness in classical music reviewing and the various reputations ;I fell your knowledgable , honest , absorbing discussion does much to correct this . In other words all of us , even non-contemporary art followers know of Stockhausen but few of his know his real importance . Much here I don't remember reading anywhere else . His mother's fate I did not know nor the fact that he was indebted to the war . Milhaud taught every important composer now living (interesting that Stock didn't care much for him ) , Frank Martin but he enjoyed Messiaen ! Klavierstucke as a score like Birtwistle and Ferneyhough are amazing to look at ; I actually have Epigramma on my musicroom wall . The music requires ears and real thinking . I'm very grateful for this short introduction to his work maybe now I can reread some of the various pdf dissertations I have copied over the years .I respect Stock I hope you have or make more of these Scelsi may not require it since he is so easy to listen to but I know knowing where he is coming from, his processing , his influences is another matter .

Your channel is amazing!! Great work!!!

thank you for breaking down his history and composition techniques I'm getting more and more into classical music but your videos help me learn

OK so he was crazy, not unlike a lot of other composers. Emphasizing the immersive/spatial elements of his music is on point...some of his works are long, but if you let yourself become engaged in his sound world, especially the later work, forget about it's complexity, there's a primitive ritual quality to enjoy. The tight hold on access to his catalogue of recordings can't help.

Great channel my man. There aren't nearly enough channels like yours on youtube.

Thank you Classical Nerd!

While he was a teenager my older brother became a classic nerd too. In his last year before he left home, he moved on from composers like Beethoven, Mahler, Vaughan Williams or Rimsky-Korsakov to composers like Stockhausen and it was the worst thing that could have happened to him. Stockhausen's madness rubbed off on my brother and destabilised him and, shortly after he left home and the love and support of his family, he had a nervous breakdown and was recruited into a religious cult. They took control of his life and not long after that he was dead. He died eight years ago, at the Marie Curie Hospice, Penarth, Wales, on 15th May 2014. Rest In Peace David.

I'm studying In Freundschaft in my theory class right now. Thank you for a fantastic lecture on Stockhausen!

Thanx, Thomas🌹🌹🌹

thank you. good work

Well done video! Stockhausen is one of my favorite composers from the 20th century.

Thank you, thank you very much for your great channel!! It will be very interesting to see a video about Anri Tomasi and Ernest Bloch.hope you like the idea

Fantastic video! An Astor Piazzolla video would be awesome.

bro had main character vibes

You give good lectures, lad! I'm devoted to your stories and insights. I study many books in this field, and you tend to be historically and aesthetically correct most of the time, a grand achievement in such a murky and mayhemy realm as music. Astonishing how many conflicts, fierce opposition, heckling and concert disrupting happened way back in the 1800s until today. Are there still riots at, say, the modern Arvo Part, Lt. Caramel, or Ferneyhough performances?

Great program about Stockhausen! Personally I like his way of using rigor in his compositions rather than Boulez of whom I find his music too strict and controlled. His instrumentation however is glorious! Stockhausen presented original timbres and combinations of sounds that you never heard of, probably as a result working in the electronic studio throughout his life. One of my favorite works of his is Gruppen, Inori, Trans, some parts of his enormous Licht-cycle especially Donnerstag (Thursday), Samstag (Saturday), Mittwoch (Wednesday, the one with Helicopter Quartet included!) and Dienstag (Tuesday). The rest I am curious to find out more, still fascinating person. Controversial, aren't we all?

Thanks for the video. Would love to see a video on Morton Subotnick. His work with electronics is very much different than Stockhausen's-even down to the instruments.

He is the best and the one that changed music forever the prophetized composer he was not mad

The ultimate madlad.

Remember hearing Gesang der Junglinge and thought it was wild. Them later I heard “ To cure a weakling child” by Aphex Twin and thought “ This sounds a bit like something I heard when I was younger”. It took a while to make a connection.

Very well done thank you for this. Recommendations on where to find some of the scores you talked about in this video?

It would be great to have subtitles for the video:)

Can you make a villa-lobos or Xenakis video?

Could you do one on Turlough O Carolan, our music always gets left out :/

George Crumb :) ?

The Licht Cycle is stupendous! I mean, the Dodecadigital Girl kicks Brunnhilde's You-Know-What anyday, lol! (I mean, that character is a virtuoso on the ALTO CLARINET, gotta worship that, right?). Seriously, however, this is a great overview, and I would love to discuss your deeper opinion of Stockhausen's oeuvre? Thanks for all your incredible work!

Would you know if Stockhausen ever had any interactions with Reginald Smith Brindle please? I'm trying to do some research about this :)

Or Xenakis or Harry Partch.

I really don't get why you have to say that Stockhausen said that 9/11 was "a work of art" -- why are Americans so obtuse? What he actually said has been reported over and over -- he said it was the worst thing that's ever been done by mankind, and that no work of art can redeem it.

have you seen Samuel Andreyev's channel?

Maybe I'm just as mad as Stockhausen, but he's un-ironically my favorite classical composer. Great video, although I happen to like Klavierstucke IX quite a lot. There's something cool about having absurdly long time signatures based on Fibonacci numbers.

Some time back I came across this blog: stockhausenspace.blogspot.com/ There you can find among other things analyses and listening guides to lots of Stockhausen's pieces. Very fascinating!

Missing is a video on Arne Nordheim. Has he been forgotten? I hope not.

The video is nice, but I need to learn specifically about Helikopter-Streichquartett, I have an exam about this performance in some weeks. Could anyone indicate what minute of the video he talks about this performance? I would be so grateful!

This is great. The content as history is really, really nice. I want to be in awe and am, but there is one thing that needs improvement. Hear ye, hear ye. This should be neither justified nor dismissed. Become a camera whisperer. I am serious. Your camera is on auto focus which is just dumb (sorry). You have the sharp-edged text of the books such that the lens is going back and forth. All this is important. It's fantastic other than that. Switch the lens to manual focus: put something as a focus object--maybe just a small anything for a focus. Use the back screen's zoom focus in back: the (+) button and "focus the derned lens" Only then should proceed to make the film pLEeEaAssSe :) Oh, maybe pull back a teensy bit. It's so close, yeah, just a teensy bit back. Become a camera whisperer.

Lolol, have you read the Urantia Book? To be clear, it’s way too long to justify deep diving that thing, but apparently it was a profound read for our boi 😂😂 I found a pdf of it online, but it’s a huge 2000+ page doc lmao, if ya want it

i got what he was saying with the 9/11 thing , ppl trying to hard to be mad

Great video. "Threnody for Frank Zappa by Tony villodas composer

Perhaps people who do not understand should not express an opinion (though it does not prohibit people who think they understand from expressing one!) I know nothing about serialism in music but cannot help wondering if there is an element of The Emperor's New Clothes in this kind of "music" and rather than "taking us on a journey to Sirius" KS has tsken many of us for a ride and he ought not to have been taken "Siriusly!"

What about Ukranian composers like Mykola Lysenko?)

Good lord. He was NOT a "great composer." Bach was a great composer.

"Great composer" and "Karlheinz Stockhausen" put together is an oxymoron. Never use these in the same sentence. That guy is horrible!