6. Karlheinz StockhausenHymnen

I started to listen to Stockhausen when I was about fourteen. I read everything I could find in English or French that Stockhausen wrote – books or whatever – and the one that Boulez did and Glenn Gould too, about eight to ten books in all. And they are all very interesting. I mean, I love the theoretical approach, the way he tries to link philosophical concepts to musical concepts. The themes of time, of events, of repetition and music are highly connected.

I want to be definitive on this: I don’t believe there is a ‘classical music’ category really. There is music and not-music; it doesn’t need to be just classical or just rock & roll.