Karlheinz Stockhausen 08

Karlheinz Stockhausen (22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German,widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music". He is known for his ground-breaking work in electronic music, aleatory in serial composition.

He was educated at the Hochschule 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.

Early life:

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. His father was a schoolteacher, and his mother was the daughter of a prosperous family of farmers in Neurath in the Cologne Bight. She played the piano and accompanied her own singing but, after three pregnancies in as many years, experienced a mental breakdown and was institutionalized in December 1932, followed a few months later by the death of her younger son, Hermann.

From the age of seven, Stockhausen grew up in Altenberg, where he received his first piano lessons from the Protestant organist of the Altenberg Cathedral, Franz-Josef Kloth. His father, Simon Stockhausen, remarried in 1938 and with his new wife, Luzia, had two daughters. Because his relationship with his new stepmother was less than happy, in January 1942 Karlheinz became a boarder at the teachers' training college in Xanten, where he continued his piano training and also studied oboe and violin. According to one source, as a young teenager he worked as a cobbler .

In 1941 or 1942, he learned that his mother had died, ostensibly from leukemia, although everyone at the same hospital had supposedly died of the same disease. It was generally understood that she had been a victim of the Nazi policy of killing "useless eaters".

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