Stockhausen is probably the most influential composer alive today. He has dominated new music for 35 years, pioneering advances in electronic music, multi-orchestra music, musical meditation, and music theatre. Robin Maconie's book, first published in 1976, remains the only overview of Stockhausen's music in any language and is highly regarded, not least by the composer himself. This new edition is enlarged and completely revised, taking account of the works composed in the intervening years, whichinclude such major landmarks as Sirius and Licht. The contents are now streamed into chapters treating groups of works which share a line of development, for example 'The Path to Electronic Music' which deals with the evolution of Stockhausen's electronic music from 1952 to 1956, or Metamusic, whichfollows the evolution of his process compositions from 1963 to 1970.
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