Stockhausen Klavierstuck X (2/3)

Part 2

Aloys Kontarsky performs.

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Music

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• Stockhausen
• Piano
• Klavierstuck
• Klavierstucken
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[Kraehe]

It's often said that the music of modernist composers is cold, chaotic or disruptured even, "unemotional" and whatnot. What these people do not and cannot grasp is that music like that of K.-H. Stockhausen is tremendously "religious" (or what term you may prefer) in its recurrence to the moments of fascinans and tremendum of the numinous. Of course, ...

[John11inch]

I see you're from Germany, meaning English is probably not your first language. As such, when you combine that with excessive thesaurus usage, it makes for a hilariously incomprehensible statement.

[Schell77]

@John11inch I'll take Kraehe's side of this argument. In fact Stockhausen, unlike the freethinkers Boulez and Ligeti, was indeed a religious person, appending Deo Gratias to the score of Gruppen, and eventually replacing Catholicism with his own take on the Urantia book later in life.

[John11inch]

There's no argument (and thus no sides of an argument) to be had.

[niazi1985]

WT...

[chamallowbleu]

soundtrack to a hangover

[Mayokitty7]

I don't understand.

I must be too low-class or something.

[thepompousfrenchman]

This is genius, it's not about the sound or melody of each individual note, but the overall movement of the sound clusters, the modern evolution effect. I've reached and epiphany.

[ArturoYamashita]

great, inspirational, but not comfortable and I can't get high by this.

[lovesGenet]

and how does the performer ever know what to do with a score looks like that. Must be directions. It's a great sounding and idea but how do u read the score?

[LazyBastard69]

@Kraehe lol. you suck

[Kraehe]

... nobody who's concept of "God" or the "Holy" is that of the harmonized, benevolent, personal and all around rationalized "God" of Protestant secular exegesis of the New Testament can grasp or would want to believe in the concept of a God that is simply beyond all perception of terms which could be used to define it, that is neither rational nor irrational.