Talk:Studie I

Maconie
I don't see how something whose title includes "1953-1963" was published in 1954. Hyacinth (talk) 22:36, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Obviously, it was not. Perhaps I can disentangle the items in question, which begin with the report (in German) published by Stockhausen as "Komposition 1953 Nr. 2" in the Technische Hausmitteilingen des nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks 6, nos. 1–2, in 1954. This was translated into French by someone (probably not Boulez, whose German wasn't yet very fluent this early in his career), and published that same year as "Une Expérience Électronique" in volume 2 no. 3 of the series "Cahiers de la compagnie Madeleine Renaud–Jean-Louis Barrault" (the theatre company which at that time employed Boulez as its music director), with the volume title La musique et ses problèmes contemporains (no year or years in the title). It was to this publication that the music diagrams drawn (according to Robin Maconie) by Boulez were added. This volume was later reprinted, together with a companion collection of "follow-up" essays (as "two volumes in one") under the title to which you refer: La musique et ses problèmes contemporains 1953-1963 (years added to the original title), now as a new issue (no. 41) of the Cahiers de la Compagnie Madeleine Renaud–Jean Louis Barrault, in 1963 (this reprint was again reprinted in 1969 by Swets & Zeitlinger, in Amsterdam). In the meantime, Dieter Schnebel had prepared an edition of the original German text (without Boulez's added illustrations), as part of the second volume of Stockhausen's collected writings, which were published in 1964 under the full title Texte, Band 2: zu eigenen Werken; zur Kunst Anderer; Aktuelles: Aufsätze 1952–1962: zur musikalischen Praxis, a title nowadays reduced to the uniform title of the continued series of writings, as Texte zur Musik 2. Most of this publication history is found in this volume, but not the double-volume reprint of the French text, which presumably has not appeared by the time of Schnebel's press deadline. To further complicate matters, Robin Maconie (Other Planets, 137n8) mistakenly give 1964 instead of 1963 as the publication year of no. 41 of the Cahiers. This is a very convoluted history, but I hope this makes plain why the French citation is dated 1954.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:30, 28 July 2012 (UTC)