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KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Karlheinz Stockhausen
August 22nd 1928 – December 5th 2007
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Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) composed 376 individually performable works.
From 1977 to 2003 he composed the cycle of operas LICHT (LIGHT), The Seven Days of the Week, which comprises about 29 hours of music.
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All of the seven parts of this music-theatre work have had their staged world premières: DONNERSTAG (THURSDAY) in 1981, SAMSTAG (SATURDAY) in 1984, and MONTAG (MONDAY) in 1988, all three produced by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan; DIENSTAG (TUESDAY) in 1993 and FREITAG (FRIDAY) in 1996, both at the Leipzig Opera, SONNTAG (SUNDAY) in 2011, at the Cologne Opera.
With MITTWOCH (WEDNESDAY), the Birmingham Opera Company presented the last day of the LICHT heptalogy on Wednesday, August 22nd 2012.
After LICHT, Stockhausen intended to compose the hours of the day, the minute and the second.
He began the cycle KLANG (SOUND), The 24 Hours of the Day, an