Stockhausen Interview

"Stockhausen rarely gives interviews" ...if you search "Stockhausen interview" there's a ton of material. He was very present in the academic world and in music industry, and there are even a lot of whole lectures of his. We are not talking about Scelsi or Sorabji....but journalists always tend to exaggerate their achievements..

Stockhausen on his own legacy: "i didn't break anything... I just left it as it is. but I added a lot of new works... there is enough to study now for centuries to add this to the traditional music. (breaking eachother's work) that is respect-less and I don't like that at all." love how Stockhausen maintains in this interview!

...'No.' I miss Stockhausen

Oh the interviewer really must have thought his questions were amazing, but in fact there was a total lack of tune between him and Stockhausen. It seems like the guy wasn't seeing or questioning Stockhausen at all, and was only able to address a distorted image that he had previously created about the composer.

It’s crazy that this YouTube video got uploaded when Stockhausen was still alive. Rest In Peace You Mad Genius

6:30 "I didn't break anything. I just left it as it is." Great comeback. And true as well.

No

The greatest part of this interview is the fact that you just know the interviewer spent hours, maybe days, thinking of what to ask first and expecting a nice, long answer to the most brilliant thing he could come up with, only to be shot down in flames. Hilarious.

This reminds me of an incident that occurred in the late 70s when I managed a high-end stereo store in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We carried the Carver Holographic preamp. A group of grad students from U of M came with a stack of records to test it. One was Stockhausen's 'Gesang der Jünglinge' on DG. In one section, the voice image moved dramatically up and down; it was so obvious that everyone noticed it. They freaked. "How the hell did he do that?" they demanded. I never figured it out.

you wasted a great opportunity to interview him.

Before they became famous, the Beatles played in Hamburg, Germany, for eight solid weeks in August 1960 at two or three clubs. Both Paul McCartney and John Lennon liked avant garde music. Paul looked up Stockhausen, turned John Lennon on to him. Stockhausen turned both Beatles on to electronic music. Soon everyone on the cutting edge of music was trading in their acoustical instruments for electronic pianos, bass, guitars, and saxophones. Soon Beatles music was being played by jazz musicians with electronic instruments. Stockhausen is a major influence in music and sound. He is genius.

😂and know i roll a spliff with his grandson. And we laugh and miss his grandvater. He was a kind Person. Bless

After Webern my new obsession is Stockhausen. I love him!

he actually makes opera sound exciting. i'd go see it.

Rest in peace. I met him when I was 17. It was such a revelation for me. First Berio, then Ligeti. Now Stockhausen. I'm very sad today.

Really interesting. Thank you very much for this content!

If you're interested in a good interview with Stockhausen, I'd recommend his conversation with Björk, that's not so hard to find on Google (just search for 'Björk Stockhausen interview').

Who knows what genius work he could have written with those 11 minutes

The last time Stockhausen saw his father (a German soldier on leave from the front) was in 1945. His father told him "I'm not coming back, take care of things." And his father was soon thereafter listed as missing in action. What a terrible burden of sorrow that entire generation had to bear.

R.I.P. A great maestro, a real genius, we'll miss you