Markus Stockhausen (born 2 May 1957) is a German

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and composer. His recordings and performances have typically alternated between

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and chamber or opera music, the latter often in collaboration with his father, composer

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

Biography

Born in

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, West Germany, he is the son of composer

and the pianist and pedagogue Doris Stockhausen. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece '' Originale''. He received his first piano lessons at age six, and at age twelve he began to play the trumpet. He attended the music secondary school in Cologne. Concerts and festival appearances, also for the Goethe Institute, have taken him around the world. In November 2008 he gave the first performance of ''Freedom Variations'', a composition for trumpet and chamber ensemble written by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero. The Markus Stockhausen Group (with Jeroen van Vliet p, Christian Thomé dr, Jörg Brinkmann cello) released on 27 August 2021 the album ''Tales''.

Discography

* ''Aparis'' ( ECM, 1990) * ''Cosi Lontano...Quasi Dentro'' (ECM, 1989) * ''Köln Musik Fantasy'' (1991) * ''Stockhausen: Michaels Reise'' (ECM, 1992) * ''Despite the Fire-Fighters' Efforts...'' (Polygram/ECM/Universal, 1993) * ''New Colours of Piccolo Trumpet'' ( EMI Classics, 1993) * ''Stockhausen: Oberlippentanz; Ave; Tierkreis (Trio-Version)'' (Stockhausen-Verlag, 1993) * ''Stockhausen: Aries; Klavierstück XIII'' (Stockhausen-Verlag, 1994) * ''Clown'' (EMI, 1995) * ''Possible Worlds'' (CMP, 1995) * ''Cologne Music Fantasy'' (Largo, 1996) * ''Sol Mestizo'' ( ACT, 1996) * ''Markus Stockhausen Plays Karlheinz Stockhausen'' (EMI Classics, 1998) * ''Solo I'' (Aktivraum, 2000) * ''Still Light'' (MA, 2000) * ''In Deiner Nahe'' (aka ''Close to You'') (Aktivraum, 2001) * ''Karta'' (ECM, 2001) * ''Joyosa'' (Enja, 2002) * ''Lichtblick: Prima, Altrove...'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Nonduality'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Thinking About'' (Aktivraum, 2004) * ''Mozart, La Nuit Jazz 'n' Groove'' ( Nocturne, 2005) * ''Es War Einmal...Instanti Infiniti'' (Aktivraum, 2007) * ''Streams'' ( Enja, 2007) * ''Abendglühen'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * ''Electric Treasures: Live in Bonn'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * '' No Matter'' (Metastation, 2008) * ''Symbiosis: Werke von Markus Stockhausen für Klarinette und Trompete und Streichorchester'' (Aktivraum, 2008) * ''Other Presences'' ( Sargasso, 2008) * ''Symphonic Colours'' (2009) * ''Spaces & Spheres: Intuitive Music'' ( Wergo, 2013) * ''Markus Stockhausen and the Metropole Orkest'' (Intuition, 2013) * ''Atlas'' (2015) * ''Alba'' (ECM/Universal, 2016) * ''Hamdelaneh - Intimate dialogues (with Alireza Mortazavi)'' (Dark Companion, 2019) * Markus Stockhausen Group: ''Tales'' (o-tone music, 2021) * ''Reverie'' (with Luca Formentini) (Dark Companion, 2023)

As sideman

With Rainer Brüninghaus * '' Continuum'' (ECM, 1983) With

Ralph Towner Ralph Towner (born March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion, trumpet and French horn. Biography Towner was born i ...

* '' City of Eyes'' (ECM, 1988) With Lebowski * ''Goodbye My Joy'' (Lebowski, 2013) With Gaspare Bernardi * ''Stranger at home'' (Incipit/Egea, 2018)

References

Sources

*Sanz, Pablo (2006). "Markus Stockhausen, una mirada fuera de plano". ''Scherzo: Revista de música'' 21, no. 210 (July–August): 136–37. *Tarr, Edward H. (2001). "Stockhausen, Markus". ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by

Stanley Sadie Stanley John Sadie (; 30 October 1930 – 21 March 2005) was a British musicologist, music critic, and editor. He was editor of the sixth edition of the '' Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' (1980), which was published as the first edition ...

and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.

External links

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