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  1. 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 [1] [2] [3] [4] but also controversial [5] composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. Karlheinz StockhausenAugust 22nd 1928 – December 5th 2007BIOGRAPHY. 1928. Born Wednesday, August 22nd in Mödrath near Cologne. 1947-51. In Cologne, studied at the State Conservatory of Music (piano, music education) and at the University of Cologne (German philology, philosophy, musicology). Since 1950.

  5. Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer of the 20 th and the early 21 st Century. He is remembered for his ‘compositional series’ and his analytical contributions to music theory. Stockhausen was born on August 22, 1928 in Burg Modrath, which was then known as ‘the castle of the village of Modrath’.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

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