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Born: 22 August
1928, Mödrath, Germany
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
A 20th century composer, who, at the beginning of his
career, wrote in Schoenberg's
twelve-tone technique,
but later turned to electronic
music,
produced by electric means and by electronic instruments. The concrete
music
(composed of recorded sounds) he had learned from Boulez,
attracted him, and he developed a technique based on sound points and sound
groups.
Stockhausen found himself influenced by the ideas and
philosophy of the East, and composed controversial
music, interesting however, like the "Hymns"
("Hymnen") or the hypnotic "Stimmung",
performed by 6 singers singing the same chord for more than an hour, with
changes in timbre
and volume.
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Twentieth Century
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