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    • Biography Karlheinz Stockhausen

    Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Karlheinz Stockhausen (August 22 1928 – December 5 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged as one of the most important (Barrett 1988, 45; Harvey 1975b, 705; Hopkins 1972, 33; Klein 1968, 117) but also controversial (Power 1990, 30) composers of the 20th century. He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music and aleatory (controlled chance) in serial composition. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music" (Hewett 2007). Biography Childhood Stockhausen was born in the Burg Mödrath, the so-called "castle" of the village of Mödrath, which served at the time as the maternity home of the Bergheim Kreis. (The village, located near Kerpen in the vicinity of Cologne, was displaced in 1956 by the strip-mining of lignite in the region, though the castle itself still exists). His father was a schoolteacher and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neura

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