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Karel Goeyvaerts
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Karel Goeyvaerts (8 June 1923–February 3, 1993) was a Belgian composer born in Antwerp. After studies at the Royal Flemish Music Conservatory in Antwerp, he studied composition in Paris with Darius Milhaud and analysis with Olivier Messiaen. He also studied ondes martenot with Maurice Martenot, who invented the instrument. In 1951, Goeyvaerts attended the famous Darmstadt New Music Summer School where he met Karlheinz Stockhausen who was five years younger. Both were devout Catholics and found ways of integrating religious numerology into their serial compositions. They found themselves deep in conversation, and performed a movement from Goeyvaerts's "Nummer 1", Sonata for 2 pianos in the composition course by Theodor W. Adorno there. They were both astonished upon hearing for the first time Messiaen's "Mode de valeurs et d'intensités" (from Quatre Études de rhythme), in a recording by the composer which Antoine Goléa played at a lecture. These experiences together convinced Stockhausen he should study with Messiaen. Goeyvaerts became very excited in 1952 when he learned that Stockhausen had access in Paris to a generator of sine waves. Goeyvaerts saw them as an important discovery for music: the purest sound possible. At the time, Stockhausen did not share his enthusiasm, owing partly to the inability with the equipment at hand to superimpose sine tones. Only later, after taking up his new post at the NWDR Electronic Music Studio in Cologne, did Stockhausen find more suita
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Karel Goeyvaerts: The Serial Works Nos. 1 - 7
Karel Goeyvaerts: 5 Litanies
Karel Goeyvaerts: Amor(t)
Karl Goeyvaerts: String Quartets
Karel Goeyvaerts: The Serial Works No. 1 - 7
Klangstudie And Komposition
Karel Goeyvaerts
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Forbidden Planets Volume 2 - More Music From The Pioneers of Electronic Sound
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Acousmatrix 6
Karel Goeyvaerts: Aquarius
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Karel Goeyvaerts: The Serial Works Nos. 1-7
Litanies