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    Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between...
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    and the gigantic opera cycle Licht. He died at the age of 79, on 5 December 2007 at his home in Kürten, Germany. Stockhausen was born in Burg Mödrath, the...
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    Mittwoch aus Licht (English: Wednesday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, four scenes, and a farewell. It was the sixth of...
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    Donnerstag aus Licht (Thursday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the first of seven to...
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    Sonntag aus Licht (Sunday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in five scenes and a farewell, to a libretto written and compiled by the composer...
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    Samstag aus Licht (Saturday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting and four scenes, and was the second of seven to be composed...
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  • Carmélites, Poulenc, 1957 Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, 1689 Dienstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1993 Djamileh, Bizet, 1872 Doctor Atomic, John Adams, 2005 Dolores...
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    fifth to be composed of the seven operas that comprise Licht (Light), by Karlheinz Stockhausen. It was the last of the operas to receive a staged production...
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    Samstag aus Licht, which she also performed at the staged premiere of Samstag at La Scala in Milan in May 1984. The next year, Stockhausen made a new version...
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    Dienstag aus Licht (Tuesday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting and two acts, with a farewell, and was the fourth of seven...
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    a series of nineteen compositions by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Stockhausen has said the Klavierstücke "are my drawings". Originating as a...
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    Montag aus Licht (Monday from Light) is an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen in a greeting, three acts, and a farewell, and was the third of seven to be composed...
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    Helikopter-Streichquartett (category Chamber music by Karlheinz Stockhausen)
    Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mittwoch aus Licht: Uraufführung, Birmingham Opera Company: London 2012 Festival, 35–40, 81–84. Kürten: Stockhausen-Stiftung für...
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  • Look up Licht in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Licht is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. Licht may also...
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    Reissued on Stockhausen Complete Edition CD 26 (2 CDs). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag, 1991. 1983. Karlheinz Stockhausen, Donnerstag aus Licht, opera. Deutsche...
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  • Doris Gertrud Johanna Stockhausen (née Andreae; 1924 – 20 June 2023) was the early muse and first wife of Karlheinz Stockhausen, who dedicated several...
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    the opera Donnerstag aus Licht. After graduating from the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Schule Gymnasium Rösrath [de] in 1986, Stockhausen gave concerts worldwide...
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    composing the opera-cycle Licht (1977–2004), Stockhausen felt he was shifting his focus from the visible world of the eyes—Licht is the German word meaning...
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  • 1970, and became the central focus of Stockhausen's music up to 2003. Stockhausen's mammoth opera cycle Licht is based on a three-strand "super-formula"...
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    Oktophonie (category Compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen)
    electronic-music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen. A component layer of act 2 of the opera Dienstag aus Licht, it may also be performed as an independent...
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    Company performed the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht, the last opera of the Licht cycle to be staged, as part of the London 2012...
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  • Kohl, Jerome. 2004. "Der Aspekt der Harmonik in Licht." In Internationales Stockhausen-Symposion 2000: LICHT: Musikwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität...
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    (1974–75) is a musical composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. The title is the German word for Zodiac, and the composition consists...
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  • Unsichtbare Chöre (category Compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen)
    electronic-music composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen. A component part of the opera Donnerstag aus Licht, it may also be performed as an independent...
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  • ... Sirius is the key work that leads to his magnum opus LICHT (LIGHT)". When Stockhausen's daughter, Julika (aged 5 or 6 at the time), asked for a dog...
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  • world premieres of Stockhausen’s Montag, Dienstag, and Freitag from Licht at La Scala and the Leipzig Opera, and in Donnerstag aus Licht at Covent Garden...
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    and Karlheinz Stockhausen scored for ryūteki in the original Gagaku-ensemble version of Jahreslauf (act 1 of the opera Dienstag aus Licht). "Instrumentos...
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    (German: [kɔnˈtaktə] , 'contacts') is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, realized in 1958–60 at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) electronic-music...
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    Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Einführung"/"Introduction", English translation by Suzanne Stephens, in booklet accompanying Karlheinz Stockhausen, Licht-Bilder...
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  • Michaelion: 4. Szene vom Mittwoch aus Licht (score). Kürten: Stockhausen-Verlag. Stockhausen, Karlheinz. 2006. Stockhausen-Courses Kuerten 2006: Composition...
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