Karlheinz Stockhausen — Zyklus

Zyklus, for solo percussion (1959) Tristan Fry, percussion Stockhausen composed Zyklus (1959) as part of a competition he initiated in order to find performers skilled enough to play the taxing percussion parts in his orchestral work Gruppen. Prospective participants complained about the lack of works available for solo percussion, so Stockhausen attempted to fill the void with Zyklus, a latter-day etude intended to awaken the performer to new possibilities. Zyklus is arranged in a cycle of 17 “periods“