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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
That's incredible you knew Stockhausen. I was fortunate enough to attend a few lectures by Vladimir Ussachevsky but only ever asked him one question and that was during an official Q&A thing. I asked him a bumbled question about his recording techniques and felt terribly embarrassed afterward. It was obvious I just wanted to talk to him but was too stupid to come up with a respectable question.
For whatever it's worth over the last year or so I've become more and more enamared with Olivier Messiaen.
I have no idea where it ranks among all his works but I love Xenakis' percussion music.
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Yes, he was a very kind friend the last 7 years of his life and I have lots of wonderful memories.
I had the chance to study with
Xenakis beginning in the late '90s, but he was so sick by that time,
that
Gerard Pape was doing most of the teaching at
Les Ateliers UPIC.
Messiaen was a teacher to both
Stockhausen and
Xenakis, so it would be natural to gravitate towards his work.
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