Playlist: Karlheinz Stockhausen
In May and June 2019, we hosted Stockhausen: Cosmic Prophet – a celebration of the architect of modern music
As a lead into the series, which explored the different sides to his revolutionary works, we put together this special chronological playlist to offer a taste of the remarkable musical mind of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Beginning in 1950 with Chöre für Doris – a three-movement a capella choral composition dedicated to the composer’s first wife, Doris Stockhausen, née Andreae – the playlist ends with Third Hour from Klang, the cycle of compositions Stockhausen was working on at the time of his death in 2007.
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