ISBN: | 978-5-5084-0956-2 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Helikopter-Streichquartett (English: Helicopter String Quartet) is one of Karlheinz Stockhausen`s best-known pieces, and one of the most complex to perform. It involves a string quartet, four helicopters with pilots, as well as audio and video equipment and technicians. It was first performed and recorded in 1995. Although performable as a self-sufficient piece, it also forms the third scene of the opera Mittwoch aus Licht ("Wednesday from Light").