Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
Autograph sketches signed ('Stockhausen') for Hymnen [Anthems], [1966-67]
Autograph sketches for this electronic and concrete work based on national anthems.

In pencil and pink pen on 7 leaves, various sizes, each inscribed in pen 'Skizzenblatt zu "Hymnen" / Stockhausen' (or similar); and five miscellaneous autograph or partially autograph items signed (some with initials), one inscribed 'Skizzenblatt zum Text KONTAKTE Realisationspartitur' (Sketchleaf for the text KONTAKTE, executive score), another 'Skizze für die Bepflanzung eines Dammes auf meinem Grundstück' (Sketch for planting a dam on my property), another comprising printed biographical details on Stockhausen, updated in autograph, 1960, on a bifolium; and a signed envelope.

Provenance:
(1) For the miscellaneous items: Joachim Ruf (printed biographical sheet inscribed to him and signed, 1960).

(2) Reiss & Sohn, Königstein im Taunus, 10 November 2015, lot 1211 (the 'Hymnen' sketches) and 18 May 2016, lot 313.

(3) Schøyen Collection, MS 5559/1.

Hymnen is a work in four parts based on national anthems, structured by region. It exists in three versions, one for electronic and concrete music alone, a second with the addition of soloists and a partial version (the Third Region only) for orchestra. It was written in 1966-67, and first performed in the version with soloists in Cologne on 30 November 1967.