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  • 9 - The Serial Music of Karlheinz Stockhausen

  • from Part II - Composers
  • Edited by Martin Iddon, University of Leeds
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Serialism
    Published online:
    07 March 2023
    Print publication:
    16 February 2023, pp 140-153

  • Summary

    Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the most important representatives of so-called multiple serial music after 1950. In 1951, he was one of the first European composers to write a musical work, Kreuzspiel, in which all sound parameters are comprehensively shaped with the help of serial procedures. For Stockhausen, serial thinking was rooted in the twelve-tone music of Anton Webern. However, he understood serial thinking not only as a compositional principle, but as a complex mental attitude. On the basis of central stations of Stockhausen's musical oeuvre, the fundamentals, characteristics, and transformations of his serial way of creating are shown. Chronologically, an arc is spanned from the strictly serial works of the early 1950s (his point music) through the statistical, aleatoric, variable, moment, and intuitive music of the late 1950s and 1960s to the formula and multi-formula composition that was at the centre from the 1970s on. The arc closes with a look at the last two major work cycles, Licht(1977–2003) and Klang (2004–7).