Excerpts from the Writings and Lectures of Karlheinz Stockhausen

We believe that we are the first to present "The Essential Stockhausen" in free digital format. These essays, lectures and interviews were first published in two books by the composer, "Stockhausen on Music," (with Robin Maconie) published by Marion Boyers in 1976, and "Towards a Cosmic Music," Element Publishing, 1974.
"If a genius is someone whose ideas survive all attempts at explanation', writes the well-known contemporary musicologist Robin Maconie, 'then by that definition Stockhausen is the nearest thing to Beethoven this century has produced. Reason? His music lasts.'
With penetrating philosophical and spiritual insights Stockhausen describes, in this collection of lectures and interviews conducted in English, a whole new universe of sounds and events."