 Well , what happened there is , of course — now all of you must adjust your brains — the biggest work of art there has ever been . The fact that spirits achieve with one act something which we in music could never dream of , that people practise ten years madly , fanatically for a concert . And then die . [ Hesitantly . ] And that is the greatest work of art that exists for the whole Cosmos . Just imagine what happened there . There are people who are so concentrated on this single performance , and then five thousand people are driven to Resurrection . In one moment . I couldn 't do that . Compared to that , we are nothing , as composers . [ ... ] It is a crime , you know of course , because the people did not agree to it . They did not come to the " concert " . That is obvious . And nobody had told them : " You could be killed in the process . " ( Stockhausen 2002 , 76 – 77 ) 
