Karlheinz Stockhausen
German composer, director of the WDR electronic music studio from 1963, a central figure of postwar serialism and electronic music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007) was a German composer central to postwar serialism and one of electronic music’s defining figures, associated with the WDR Studio für elektronische Musik in Cologne from its early years and its director from 1963. His 1970 Donaueschingen Music Days commission was part of what led to the founding of the SWR Experimentalstudio the following year. He taught internationally, including Jon Hassell.
Works in the Library
Olivier Messiaen, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Milton Babbitt CONCEPT
Extending serial ordering beyond pitch to duration, dynamics, and timbre, pioneered by Messiaen, Boulez, and Stockhausen.
TIME NUMBER FORM
Related Groups in the Library
Herbert Eimert, Herbert Eimert, Karlheinz Stockhausen ORGANIZATION
Studio für elektronische Musik des WDR
The world's first electronic music studio, founded 1951 at West German Radio in Cologne.
INSTRUMENTS
