[D66] “The greatest work of art in the cosmos”: Karlheinz Stockhausen and 9/11

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Het wordt tijd dat Stockhausen gerehabiliteerd wordt.

"Hm. Well, what happened there is, is of course – now you all
have to adjust your brains – the greatest work of art that has ever
existed. That spirits achieve in one act something which in music
we could never dream of, that people madly practice for ten years,
totally fanatically, for one concert. And then die. And that is the
greatest work of art that exists for the whole cosmos. Just imagine
what happened there. These are people who are so concentrated
on this single performance, and then 5000 people are driven into
resurrection. In one moment. I couldn’t do that. Compared to that,
we are nothing, as composers that is."

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/postgraduate/maipr/currentstudents/teaching_1112/warwick/st2/harding_11-12_reading_-_stockhausen_9-11.pdf