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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 [1] [2] [3] [4] but also controversial [5] composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Aug 18, 2024 · Karlheinz Stockhausen 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 University of Cologne from 1947 to.
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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.
Working continuously between July and November of 1953, at the WDR studios, Stockhausen made his first piece of purely electronic music, Studie I. This ten minute work was based on a complex fusion of sine tones, the eerie, ethereal whistling sound familiar from a myriad of low-budget sci-fi films.
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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.
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Stockhausen caused a furor at the 1970 World Exhibition in Osaka. He had a special connection with Japan, having worked in Tokyo in 1966 at the Electronic Music Studio run by the radio...
