Stockhausen on Music

Stockhausen on Music

<div>If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation', writes the well-known contemporary musicologist Robin Maconie, 'then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts.<BR><BR>With penetrating philosophical and spiritual insights Stockhausen describes, in this collection of lectures and interviews conducted in English, a whole new universe of sounds and events.<BR><BR>"Stockhausen's uncompromising attitude to conventional aesthetics has made him one of the world's most admired musicians."?<I>The Independent</I><BR><BR>"Let there be no doubt that he is a giant, a monster cartographer of massive new spaces."?<I>Tempo</I><BR><BR>"The great innovator of the 1950s and 1960s is still a fountain of ideas. <I>Stockhausen on Music</I> shows the extrordinary range of his mind."?<I>The Sunday Times</I></div>