A short question: SONNTAG from LIGHT has the theme: mystical union of Michael and Eve. In the cycle we meet unions of their names (MICHEVA). But is there any example of a union of the names of Michael and Lucifer?

Surely they are united in the composer himself.

Their *names*??!

Like MICHael and EVA results in MICHEVA; or LUzifer and eVA = LUFA.

Oh, the names. Well, MI-KA-EL already unites Michael, Karlheinz, and Lucifer.

FWIW: Name permutation may have started with Wagner, but another exponent was Kurt Weill. David Drew's paper "Royal Palace and its Critics" (91-119 in Brook and Rosen eds, "Words on Music: Essays in Honor of Andrew Porter" NY: Pendragon 2002) makes Weill's opera Royal Palace (libretto: Yvan Goll) seem very close to Stockhausen in a number of ways. Of Act 3 Drew writes: "Tomorrow's Inamorato (a male character)is hungry - but only for Dejunira. He lists her charms and codes them by color, as if they might alchemically become edible - blue, red and green, pink, violet and orange, black and white." (102) Later, "Tomorrow permutates the four syllables of of Dejanira's name. Spellbound, his two rivals join in: Janirade, Rejedina, Nirajade"(103). Act 4 anticipates aspects of Sirius, Montag and Donnerstag aus LICHT: "Lake Chorus and Solo Song. Three Suitors. Four-fold message of the skies, the winds, the seasons, and the elements. Yesterday's Lover offers 'The Heaven of our Nights'. There is a 'Ballet - The Signs of the Zodiac' which includes a shadow play."

MI-KA-EL: Originally I understood that from the Hebrew pronunciation of the name - but, Robin, your interpretation KA = Karlheinz probably may be true. But where is Lucifer here?

EL for Lucifer, of course. Not Hebrew pronunciation, just a pictogram. And by the way, the name LUZIFER is in two parts, LU and ZIFFER (cipher / number) though the latter part of his name is represented as the furious act of counting rather than as a name. Likewise EVA is part of the unspoken duo EVA/ANGELIUM. There are also clues in the rather obvious symbol combinations which suggest gender relations, which describe Luzifer in one sense as an easy target (or military symbol), and in another sense as an ass Toward the end, Stockhausen signed himself "KA" though I suspect the idea came to him from attending a performance of Robert Wilson's "Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace" at the Shiraz Festival, Iran, in 1972. (Other Planets, 423-24)

EDIT: EL for Lucifer, of course. Not Hebrew pronunciation, just a pictogram. And by the way, the name LUZIFER is in two parts, LU and ZIFFER (cipher / number) though the latter part of his name is represented as the furious act of counting rather than as a name. Likewise EVA is part of the unspoken duo EVA/ANGELIUM. There are also clues in the rather obvious symbol combinations which suggest gender relations, which describe Luzifer in one sense as an easy target (or military symbol), and in another sense as an asshole. Toward the end, Stockhausen signed himself "KA" though I suspect the idea came to him from attending a performance of Robert Wilson's "Ka Mountain and Guardenia Terrace" at the Shiraz Festival, Iran, in 1972. (Other Planets, 423-24)

Aha! And then, after the 1972 Robert Wilson performance, Stockhausen climbed into his TARDIS and whizzed back to 1964 to compose the M-moments for MOMENTE, in the text for which he refers to himself as KA? Very ingenious.