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A comprehensive biography of the German composer, widely acknowledged as one of the most important and controversial figures of 20th and 21st century music. Learn about his life, works, influences, awards, and controversies.
Stockhausen Official website. Karlheinz Stockhausen's music, works and history of the famous 20th century composer.
Aug 18, 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.
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Learn about the life and work of one of modern music's most controversial figures, who reinvented art music in the 1950s and 1960s. Explore his musical ambitions, influences, operas, electro-acoustic experiments and legacy.
Dec 8, 2007 · Karlheinz Stockhausen, an original and influential German composer who began his career as an inventor of new musical systems and ended it making operas to express his spiritual vision of...
Learn about the life and works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, one of the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Explore his musical innovations, operas, awards, publications and legacy.
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Jun 17, 2019 · In 1991, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the mystical showman of the musical avant-garde, was commissioned to write a string quartet for the Salzburg Festival.