Stations: Stockhausen & Rihm

NDR das neue werk

Serialist der ersten Stunde: Stockhausen probt »Gruppen«
Serialist der ersten Stunde: Stockhausen probt »Gruppen« © Archiv der Stockhausen-Stiftung für Musik, Kürten (www.karlheinzstockhausen.org)
  • Doors open 18:30

  • Start 19:30

  • End ca. 21:45

Karlheinz Stockhausen – and Wolfgang Rihm? Was there something? You bet. In the early summer of 1972, Rihm finished school and had a state examination in composition and music theory in his pocket. Rihm was just twenty and his goal was clear: to study composition. And only Stockhausen in Cologne was an option. He replies politely, invites him, but immediately makes his reservations clear in writing. It had to be »clear that you have no other plans for at least two years. Otherwise you’d better go somewhere else or nowhere at all. Kind regards, K. Stockhausen«.

Performers

N.N. violoncello

Adrian Heger piano

Michael Pattmann percussion

Kathinka Pasveer sound

Reinhard Klose sound

Programme

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Gesang der Jünglinge
Klavierstück V
Klavierstück IX
Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger
Kontakte (Fassung für elektronische Klänge)

Wolfgang Rihm
Paraphrase für Violoncello, Schlagzeug und Klavier

Series

NDR das neue werk

Festival

Hamburg International Music Festival

Promoter: NDR / HamburgMusik

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During your visit

Elbphilharmonie Plaza

A public viewing platform on the 8th floor of the Elbphilharmonie

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Food and Drink

Before the concert and in the interval

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Coughing, clapping, chatting

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