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  1. Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the WDR, 1994. Karlheinz Stockhausen (German: [kaʁlˈhaɪnts ˈʃtɔkhaʊzn̩] ⓘ; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

  2. On 29 December 1951, Karlheinz Stockhausen married Doris Gertrud Johanna Andreae. By profession a piano teacher, she was also his inspiration, to whom he had dedicated several of his early works. Together they had four children: Suja, Christel, Markus, and Majella.

  3. Born on 22 August 1928 in Mödrath, near Cologne, Karlheinz Stockhausen was the eldest of three children of Simon, a school teacher and musician who died on the Eastern Front in 1945, and Gertrud, also a musician who was “interned” in 1932 and killed in 1941. In 1951, Karlheinz Stockhausen married Doris Andreae; the couple had four children ...

  4. Apr 10, 2024 · Karlheinz Stockhausen (born Aug. 22, 1928, Mödrath, near Cologne, Ger.—died Dec. 5, 2007, Kürten) was a German composer, an important creator and theoretician of electronic and serial music who strongly influenced avant-garde composers from the 1950s through the ’80s. Stockhausen studied at the State Academy for Music in Cologne and the ...

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  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen was born Aug. 22, 1928, in Modrath, near Cologne. By the age of 16, he was an orphan. ... In 1967, after the end of his first marriage, from which he had four children, he ...

  6. Biography. Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of modern music’s most controversial figures. He was at the centre of the post-war generation’s reinvention of art music in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1970s he had become a cult figure, attracting mass audiences. His commitment to avant-garde aesthetics and religious mysticism continues to elicit ...

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  8. Dec 10, 2007 · Karlheinz Stockhausen, composer and conductor: born Mdrath, Germany 22 August 1928; Artistic Director, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Electronic Music Studio 1963-77, Artistic Consultant 1977-90 ...

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