Gesang der Jünglinge
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Gesang der Jünglinge is a pioneering 1956 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that combines electronically generated sounds with a boy’s voice, often cited as a landmark in the history of electronic music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gesang der Jünglinge canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5579678 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gesang der Jünglinge Context triple: [Karlheinz Stockhausen, notableWork, Gesang der Jünglinge]
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A.
Buch der Lieder
Buch der Lieder is a seminal 1827 poetry collection by Heinrich Heine that became one of the most influential works of German Romantic literature and a major source for art song settings by composers such as Schumann and Schubert.
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B.
Kindertotenlieder
Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler, setting Friedrich Rückert’s poems about the death of children to deeply introspective and elegiac music.
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C.
An die Freude
"An die Freude" is Friedrich Schiller’s ode celebrating universal brotherhood and joy, famously set to music in the choral finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gesang der Jünglinge Target entity description: Gesang der Jünglinge is a pioneering 1956 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that combines electronically generated sounds with a boy’s voice, often cited as a landmark in the history of electronic music.
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A.
Buch der Lieder
Buch der Lieder is a seminal 1827 poetry collection by Heinrich Heine that became one of the most influential works of German Romantic literature and a major source for art song settings by composers such as Schumann and Schubert.
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B.
Kindertotenlieder
Kindertotenlieder is a song cycle for voice and orchestra by Gustav Mahler, setting Friedrich Rückert’s poems about the death of children to deeply introspective and elegiac music.
-
C.
An die Freude
"An die Freude" is Friedrich Schiller’s ode celebrating universal brotherhood and joy, famously set to music in the choral finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
-
E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
electroacoustic composition
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electronic music composition ⓘ tape music work ⓘ |
| appliesPrinciple | total serialism ⓘ |
| approximateDuration | 13 minutes ⓘ |
| catalogNumber | Stockhausen work number 8 ⓘ |
| channelConfiguration |
five-channel tape
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originally conceived for five loudspeakers ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Westdeutscher Rundfunk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Karlheinz Stockhausen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| features |
boy’s voice
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impulse sounds ⓘ noise bands ⓘ sine tones ⓘ |
| firstBroadcaster | Westdeutscher Rundfunk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
electroacoustic music
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musique concrète ⓘ serial music ⓘ |
| hasForm | through-composed ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | one of the first major works to combine voice and electronics on tape ⓘ |
| influenced |
acousmatic music
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development of electronic music ⓘ sound spatialization practices ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
early use of multichannel projection
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integration of human voice and electronic sounds ⓘ landmark status in electronic music history ⓘ |
| partOf | 20th-century classical music repertoire ⓘ |
| period | post-war avant-garde ⓘ |
| placeOfProduction | Cologne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| premiereDate | 1956 ⓘ |
| producedAt | WDR Studio for Electronic Music NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recordLabel |
Deutsche Grammophon
NERFINISHED
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Stockhausen-Verlag NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| soundSource |
electronic oscillators
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filtered noise ⓘ recorded boy soprano ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | praise of God by the three youths ⓘ |
| textSource |
Biblical story of the three youths in the furnace
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Book of Daniel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesTechnique |
electronic sound synthesis
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serial organization of parameters ⓘ spatialization of sound ⓘ tape manipulation ⓘ |
| yearOfCompletion | 1956 ⓘ |
| yearOfComposition | 1955 ⓘ |
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Subject: Gesang der Jünglinge Description of subject: Gesang der Jünglinge is a pioneering 1956 electroacoustic composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen that combines electronically generated sounds with a boy’s voice, often cited as a landmark in the history of electronic music.
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