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- A pioneer in electronic music in the early 1950s, Stockhausen and his avant-garde compositions followed in the footsteps of Austrian modernist Arthur Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, creating works of aleatory (chance-based), serial, and intuitive music.
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Jun 27, 2018 · A pioneer in electronic music in the early 1950s, Stockhausen and his avant-garde compositions followed in the footsteps of Austrian modernist Arthur Schoenberg and Anton von Webern, creating works of aleatory (chance-based), serial, and intuitive music.
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.
Stockhausen had his first breakthrough in 1951 at the legendary Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music, with the first performance of his debut work, Kreuzspiel: a composition for oboe,...
Karlheinz Stockhausen was perhaps the greatest composer of the twentieth century. Every time he created a work, he invented a new compositional system of which the work itself was a model.
Karlheinz Stockhausen started composing in the early 1950s and over the course of his lifetime he wrote over 350 works. 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.
Stockhausen’s first composition for tape, Konkrete Etüde, dates from this time. Even at this stage, however, he cut a fiercely independent figure. Schaeffer later remembered him as ‘absolutely unwilling to follow my advice’.
It is the face of Karlheinz Stockhausen, the German composer of over 350 pieces of classical music, in his mid–30s in this photo, who died on December 5th at the age of 79. For over 50 years, Stockhausen was a giant of the classical music world: iconoclastic, innovative, and often controversial.
