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Karlheinz Stockhausen
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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 School, his compositions and theories were and remain widely influential, not only on composers of art music, but also on jazz and popular-music artists. His works, composed over a period of nearly sixty years, eschew traditional forms. In addition to electronic music—both with and without live performers—they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments, songs, chamber music, choral and orchestral music, to a cycle of seven full-length operas. His theoretical and other writings comprise ten large volumes. He received numerous prizes and distinctions for his compositions, recordings, and for the scores produced by his publishing company. Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke (Piano Pieces), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic/musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyk
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Stockhausen - MANTRA
Mikrophonie I and II, Telemusik
Stockhausen: Stimmung
Elektronische Musik
Stockhausen: Gaze Through the Stars
Stockhausen: Tierkreis, In Freundschaft, Spiral 1 & Japan
Stockhausen: Zyklus - Klavierstucke V and IX - Kontakte
Kontakte
Stockhausen 3: Electronic Music 1952-1960
Early Gurus Of Electronics
Gesang der Jünlinge
Mantra