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Karlheinz Stockhausen

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stockhausen ueber popmusik.

 

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Karlheinz Stockhausen "Helicopter String Quartet"

 

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Karlheinz Stockhausen - Klavierstück I

 

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Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studie II (1954)

 

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The Music Theory of Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen 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. A critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music". He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.