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Poetica e tecniche compositive in Natürliche dauern di Karlheinz Stockhausen
| Author | Leopoldo Siano |
| Series | Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale |
| Size | 17×24, pp. 136 (3-24) |
| Year | 2018 |
| ISBN | 9788855430081 |
In this article I analyse Stockhausen’s latest piano work Natürliche Dauern (Natural Durations), third part of the cycle Klang. Die 24 Stunden des Tages (Sound. The 24 Hours of the Day). The compositional techniques are discussed taking in consideration the large context of the musical poetics of the composer. The work in question offers the opportunity to examine the peculiar features of Stockhausen’s late style (a certain minimalism, the concentration on the decay of sound as well on its relation with silence), and besides that how the composer in his last cycle tried to “overcome” (in the Hegelian sense: Aufhebung) the traditional twelve-tone technique through what he defined the “serial spirit”.
Leopoldo Siano. Philosopher of music and sound actionist. After his musicological and philosophical studies between Italy (Rome and Cremona) and Germany, in 2012 he completed his Ph.D. on Karlheinz Stockhausen’s last composition cycle Klang. Die 24 Stunden des Tages, released by the Viennese publishing house Der Apfel in 2013, and winner of the prestigious Offermann-Hergarten Award. His doctoral adviser is been Christoph von Blumröder. Since 2012 he is teaching at the Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne (Faculty of Philosophy), in the same place where Marius Schneider, a great inspirer of him, teached. In this aforesaid Institute he is collaborator of the departement Sound Studies and co-organizer of the concert series „Raum-Musik“. International activity as lecturer and writer on music. Collaborations with various institutions around the world. His musicological writings are been published in different languages (German, English, Italian, French and Armenian). Together with his wife Shushan Hyusnunts in 2015 he founded the Centre of Phonosophia in Kürten with a focus on deep listening and sound ecology (www.phonosophia.de). In 2018 a book of him is appeared for the publishing house Morra: Tra rumore primigenio e armonia delle sfere. La musica di Hermann Nitsch (Lezioni napoletane). He’s now finalising his new work on Music and Cosmogony: from the Baroque era until today as well a trilingual edition (French, Englisch, German) of a volume with texts by François Bayle.