Stockhausen, Imbrie, Hitchcock Obituaries

All in all, Dec. 5 was a difficult day for modern music.

Two major composers passed from the scene on Dec. 5: Karlheinz Stockhausen and Andrew Imbrie. The distinguished musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock also died at the age of 84.

Here is Imbrie’s NYT obituary (may not work for non-Cornell users) and one from the San Francisco Chronicle.

Stockhausen’s numerous obituary notices include one from the Times Online and the New York Times. A representative list of Stockhausen obituaries from newspapers and music blogs can be found here.

H. Wiley Hitchcock, past president of the American Musicological Society and a pathbreaking scholar of American music also passed away last week; his NYT obituary can be found here. Hitchcock’s official obituary from the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music, provided by Warren Stewart, is posted on Stewart’s blog.