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===Career and adult life=== ====Family and home==== [[File:St. im Garten Mai 2005 RGB.jpg|thumb|Stockhausen in the garden of his home in Kürten, 2005]] On 29 December 1951, in Hamburg, Stockhausen married [[Doris Stockhausen|Doris Andreae]].{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=45}}{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=47}} Together they had four children: Suja (b. 1953), Christel (b. 1956), [[Markus Stockhausen|Markus]] (b. 1957), and Majella (b. 1961).{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=90}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=94}} They were divorced in 1965.{{sfn|Rathert|2013}} On 3 April 1967, in San Francisco, he married [[Mary Bauermeister]], with whom he had two children: Julika (b. 22 January 1966) and [[Simon Stockhausen|Simon]] (b. 1967).{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=141, 149}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=95}} They were divorced in 1972.{{sfn|Rathert|2013}}<ref name=biography /> Four of Stockhausen's children became professional musicians,{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=202}} and he composed some of his works specifically for them. A large number of pieces for the trumpet—from ''[[Sirius (Stockhausen)|Sirius]]'' (1975–77) to the trumpet version of ''[[In Freundschaft]]'' (1997)—were composed for and premièred by his son Markus.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=208}}{{sfn|M. Stockhausen|1998|loc=13–16}}{{sfn|Tannenbaum|1987|loc=61}} Markus, at the age of 4 years, had performed the part of The Child in the Cologne première of ''[[Originale]]'', alternating performances with his sister Christel.{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=220}} ''Klavierstück XII'' and ''Klavierstück XIII'' (and their versions as scenes from the operas ''Donnerstag aus Licht'' and ''[[Samstag aus Licht]]'') were written for his daughter Majella, and were first performed by her at the ages of 16 and 20, respectively.{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=430, 443}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:190, 255, 274}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=6:64, 373}} The saxophone duet in the second act of ''Donnerstag aus Licht'', and a number of synthesizer parts in the ''Licht'' operas, including ''Klavierstück XV'' ("Synthi-Fou") from ''[[Dienstag aus Licht|Dienstag]]'', were composed for his son Simon,{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=222}}{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=480, 489}}{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:186, 529}} who also assisted his father in the production of the electronic music from ''[[Freitag aus Licht]]''. His daughter Christel is a flautist who performed and gave a course on interpretation of ''Tierkreis'' in 1977,{{sfn|Stockhausen ''Texte''|loc=5:105}} later published as an article.{{sfn|C. Stockhausen|1978}} In 1961, Stockhausen acquired a parcel of land in the vicinity of [[Kürten]], a village east of Cologne, near [[Bergisch Gladbach]] in the [[Bergisches Land]]. He had a house built there, which was designed to his specifications by the architect Erich Schneider-Wessling, and he resided there from its completion in the autumn of 1965.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=116–117, 137–138}} ====Teaching==== [[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F004566-0002, Darmstadt, Internationaler Kurs für neue Musik.jpg|thumb|Stockhausen lecturing at the 12th [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse|International Summer Courses for New Music]] in Darmstadt, 1957]] After lecturing at the [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse|Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik]] at Darmstadt (first in 1953), Stockhausen gave lectures and concerts in Europe, North America, and Asia.{{sfn|Stockhausen-Verlag|2010|loc=2, 14–15}} He was guest professor of composition at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in 1965 and at the [[University of California, Davis]] in 1966–67.{{sfn|Kramer|1998}}{{sfn|Stockhausen-Verlag|2010|loc=2–3}} He founded and directed the Cologne Courses for New Music from 1963 to 1968, and was appointed Professor of Composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln in 1971, where he taught until 1977.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=126–128, 194}}{{sfn|Stockhausen-Verlag|2010|loc=3}} In 1998, he founded the Stockhausen Courses, which are held annually in Kürten.{{sfn|Stockhausen-Verlag|2010|loc=6–9, 15}} ====Publishing activities==== From the mid-1950s onward, Stockhausen designed (and in some cases arranged to have printed) his own musical scores for his publisher, [[Universal Edition]], which often involved unconventional devices. The score for his piece ''Refrain'', for instance, includes a rotatable ([[refrain]]) on a transparent plastic strip. Early in the 1970s, he ended his agreement with Universal Edition and began publishing his own scores under the Stockhausen-Verlag imprint.{{sfn|Kurtz|1992|loc=184}} This arrangement allowed him to extend his notational innovations (for example, dynamics in ''Weltparlament'' [the first scene of ''[[Mittwoch aus Licht]]''] are coded in colour) and resulted in eight German Music Publishers Society Awards between 1992 (''Luzifers Tanz'') and 2005 (''Hoch-Zeiten'', from ''Sonntag aus Licht'').{{sfn|Stockhausen-Verlag|2010|loc=12–13}} The ''Momente'' score, published just before Stockhausen's death in 2007, won this prize for the ninth time.{{sfn|Deutscher Musikeditionspreis|2009}} In the early 1990s, Stockhausen reacquired the licenses to most of the recordings of his music he had made to that point, and started his own record company to make this music permanently available on Compact Disc.{{sfn|Maconie|2005|loc=477–478}}
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