Music and Time Annotation << Back Gestalts of the Sound Order in Creative Work by Karlheinz Stockhausen Krytska А.А. The article deals with the constant features of Karlheinz Stockhausen musical thinking, which determined his creative evolution over a period of more than fifty years. The following concepts are emphasized as fundamental ideas: music as the sound order, global structure, different gestalts in the same light, chromatic scale, mediation, integration. Key words: K. Stockhausen, serialism, Gestalt E-mail: akrytska@yahoo.de