Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22, 1928 - December 5, 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. He is known for his ground-breaking work in
electronic music,
aleatory (controlled chance) in
serial composition, and musical spatialization. He was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, and later studied with
Olivier Messiaen in Paris, and with
Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. One of the leading figures of the Darmstadt Scho…
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