Salon.com > Paul McEnery http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 06:12:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Karlheinz Stockhausen http://www.salon.com/2001/01/16/stockhausen_2/ http://www.salon.com/2001/01/16/stockhausen_2/#comments Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/01/16/stockhausen In the 1960s and '70s, Karlheinz Stockhausen, with his long, flowing mane, Byronic open shirt and frock coat, was every inch the romantic genius for the Age of Aquarius, making music in the hope of "transcending this earth and transcending man and transcending human intelligence." All over the world, he staged massive and astonishing events that blew classical music wide open, creating electronic music almost as a byproduct.

Although his work is often ferociously difficult, the surface of the music is strangely accessible, yielding new layers of complexity at each level. If his compositions can be a little too heady for the marketplace, his ideas have permeated popular culture through his influence on artists as diverse as the Beatles, Miles Davis, Kraftwerk and the Grateful Dead. (The Dead, Jefferson Airplane and members of the Mothers of Invention all studied under him in 1967 at the University of California at Davis.)

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