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- 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.
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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.
Apr 10, 2024 · electronic music. serialism. 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.
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Karlheinz Stockhausen August 22nd 1928 – December 5th 2007 SHORT BIOGRAPHY Interview. Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) composed 376 individually performable works. From 1977 to 2003 he composed the cycle of operas LICHT (LIGHT), The Seven Days of the Week, which comprises about 29 hours of music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen. August 22nd 1928 – December 5th 2007. BIOGRAPHY. Already the first compositions of "Point Music" such as KREUZSPIEL (CROSS-PLAY) in 1951, SPIEL (PLAY) for orchestra in 1952, and KONTRA-PUNKTE (COUNTER-POINTS) in 1952/53, brought Stockhausen international fame.
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 extreme responses.
Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer who is widely regarded as one among, if not the most influential figure of the world of music in the 20th century. Stockhausen’s contribution to the world of music is most aptly reflected by the title given to him as the ‘Father of electronic music’.
Jun 27, 2018 · Stockhausen was born on August 22, 1928, in M Ö drath, a German town near the great cathedral city of Cologne. His early life was marked by tragedy: when he was four his mother suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to a psychiatric hospital where she was later killed as a result of Nazi-mandated euthanasia for the mentally ill.
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