Hans-Joachim Hespos
Hans-Joachim Hespos (1938-2022) was a German composer, born in Emden. Largely self-taught, he worked in the school system from 1962 to 1984 while writing music that seeks out extreme situations for performers, with scores whose playing directions are full of invented words. He published his own works through his own press and later issued his complete output himself. Hans-Joachim Hespos won the Gaudeamus composition prize in 1967 and a Villa Massimo fellowship in Rome in 1972/73. His works include Traces de...
Das Gesamtwerk (book)
Hard-to find self-published monograph and comprehensive catalog of works by the radical German avant-garde composer. With inserts.
...Damit Transparenz Sich Ereigne, Frische Hellhörigkeit Neu-Anderen Sinnens (2LP)
2LP set with several pieces for solo instrument or small ensemble, with radical timbric research and use of exteneded instrumental techniques, composed between 1964 and 1978, performed by Manfred Reichert's Ensemble 13 and released on the Ensemble's …
Air Maul - An Arnold Schönberg, 5860 Canyon-Cove, Hollywood, CA (2LP)
A strange 2LP compilation released by Murawski-Zimmermann Verlag in 1988 as a hommage to Arnold Schönberg, with piece for voices and intruments by Hans-Joachim Hespos, Howard Skempton, Dieter Schnebel, Christian Wolff, Michael Rumpf and Kurt Schwitte…
Zeitgenössische Musik In Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 8 (1970-1980) (3LP box)
Eigth volume of the massive and exhaustive 3LP box series of "Contemporary Music from West Germany" released in the early 80's by Deutscher Musikrat, presenting pieces composed between 1970 and 1980 by Hans Werner Henze, Wolfgang Rihm, Hans-Joachim H…