Stockhausen+Birtwistle+Boulez+David Bedford+ A Garland For Dr.K private avant'69

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A Garland For Dr. K. (1969)-- Karlheinz Stockhausen / Henri Pousseur / Harrison Birtwistle / Pierre Boulez / Luciano Berio / David Bedford / Cristobal Halffter / Roman Haubenstock-Ramati / Hugh Wood / Richard Rodney Bennett / Bernard Rands label & cat. no.:
Universal Edition UE 15043 pressed in:
Austria date:
1969 format:
LP condition:
Vinyl: vg+ (few faint scuffs)
Cover: ex- (light wear & dents) description:
One of the all time greatest experimental composer private press gems, this megararity was issued in Austria to commemorate the 80th birthday of music publisher and contemporary music champion Alfred Kalmus, featuring 11 tracks unavailable elsewhere and composed especially for this lp by the cream of the crop of postwar avant garde composers. The pieces are all for small ensembles or solos, conducted by Cristobal Halffter. With a beautiful cover design adapted from an Ernst Krenek graphical score.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Stockhausen was a German experimental composer who was a student of Olivier Messiaen and Werner Meyer-Eppler, a contemporary of John Cage and Iannis Xenakis, and worked with Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, Karel Goeyvaerts, Cornelius Cardew, Hugh Davies, Bruno Maderna, and Mauricio Kagel; he pioneered electronic music at the INA-GRM musique concrete studios of Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Luc Ferrari, Francois Bayle, and Bernard Parmegiani, at NHK Tokyo where Yori-Aki Matsudaira, Minao Shibata, Toshiro Mayuzumi, and Jon Appleton also composed, and at WDR Koln along with Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Henri Pousseur, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Gyorgi Ligeti, Franco Evangelisti, Konrad Boehmer, Anestis Logothetis, and Herbert Brun, and he explored improvisation and live electronics with David Tudor, Vinko Globokar, Michel Portal, and New Phonic Art. • Pousseur worked with Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Luciano Berio, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, and composed at the European early electronic music studios in Milan and Koln where Herbert Eimert, Konrad Boehmer, Robert Beyer, Bruno Maderna, Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Brun, Karel Goeyvaerts, Bengt Hambraeus, Anestis Logothetis, Zoltan Pongracz, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Franco Evangelisti also worked. • Birtwistle is an important British modern experimental composer influenced by Igor Stravinsky, Edgard Varese, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton Webern, and medieval music; he has associated with Benjamin Britten, Gordon Crosse, Peter Maxwell Davies, Alexander Goehr, and John Ogdon, and has worked on electronic music at IRCAM and with Peter Zinovieff. • Boulez is an influential French postwar composer, conductor, writer, and lecturer who worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio, Pierre Schaeffer, Iannis Xenakis, and Gyorgi Ligeti, and was a student of Arnold Schoenberg and Olivier Messiaen. • Berio was a pupil of Luigi Dallapiccola and Olivier Messiaen, collaborated with Italo Calvino, was married to Cathy Berberian, associated with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez, and Luigi Dallapiccola, taught Steve Reich, founded the Milan Studio di Fonologia, and directed the electroacoustic department of ICRAM in Paris. • Bedford was an avant-classical composer in the 60s, having studied under Luigi Nono and becoming influenced by Schoenberg and Bruno Maderna, and later became a prog-rocker in the 70s; he has worked with Roy Harper, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Soft Machine, and Mike Oldfield. Check out my other items for more early electronic/synth/concrete/electroacoustic, avant garde/experimental/noise, free jazz/improv, psych, sound art, soundtracks, audiophile, and 20th century classical vinyl. US Shipping - Media Mail with tracking is $5.00 for up to 2 12" records, then $0.65 for each additional; Priority Mail is also available but pricing depends on zipcode (you can check eBay's calculated shipping price at the bottom of this page); other expedited shipping options and insurance are all available on request. Combine multiple items to save on shipping.
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