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Requiem
requiem by Hector Berlioz
Licht
thumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.
Philips Pavilion
Pavilion at the Expo '58 world's fair
Gesang der Jünglinge
electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen
The Unanswered Question
musical work by American composer Charles Ives
Spem in alium
musical composition by Thomas Tallis
Poème électronique
electronic music piece
Symphony No. 4
symphony by Charles Ives
Helikopter-Streichquartett
thumb|upright=1.4|Dutch Grasshoppers aerobatics team, flying the Aérospatiale Alouette III|Alouette helicopters they used in the world premiere of the Helicopter String Quartet The Helikopter-Streichquartett () is one of Karlheinz Stockhausen's best-known pieces, and one of the most complex to perform. It involves a string quartet, four helicopters with pilots, as well as audio and video equipment and technicians. It was first performed and recorded in 1995. Although performable as a self-sufficient piece, it also forms the third scene of the opera Mittwoch aus Licht ("Wednesday from Light"),
Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci
mass
Klang
cycle of musical compositions
spatial music
composed music that intentionally exploits sound localization
Prometeo
Prometeo (Prometheus) is an "opera" by Luigi Nono, written between 1981 and 1984 and revised in 1985. Here the word "opera" carries the generic Italian meaning of "works", as in work of art, and not its usual meaning in English. Indeed, Nono scornfully labels Prometeo a "tragedia dell'ascolto", a tragedy of listening. Objectively it can be considered a sequence of nine cantatas, the longest lasting 23 minutes. The Italian libretto, by Massimo Cacciari, selects from texts by such varied authors as Aeschylus, Walter Benjamin and Rainer Maria Rilke and presents the different versions of the myth
Music of the Spheres
Symphonic work by Rued Langgaard