Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
(The following conversation between Karlheinz Stockhausen and Juan María Solare took place in Kiirten – the small village near Cologne, Germany, where he has lived for many years – on 7 August 1998, during the ‘Stockhausen-Kurscn 1998’. The intention of these courses was, in his own (messianic) words: ‘Forward what I've tried to explain to your own students, wherever you work’. Through a whole week numerous pieces of Stockhausen had been performed in Kiirten, including several of his early works, composed almost half a century ago.)
1 For some time, Stockhausen has lived with his third wife, the clarinettist Suzanne Stephens, and with the flautist Kathinka Pasveer, 30 years younger, with whom they have an almost filial relation.