Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22 1928) is a contemporary composer.

Born in Burg Mödrath, near Cologne (German: Köln), he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule and University (1947-51), at Darmstadt

Karlheinz Stockhausen (born August 22 1928) is a contemporary composer.

Born in Burg Mödrath, near Cologne (German: Köln), he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule and University (1947-51), at Darmstadt in 1951, with Olivier Messiaen and shortly with Darius Milhaud in Paris (1951-53). From 1954 to 1956, at the University of Bonn, he studied phonetics, acoustics, and information theory and composition. After lecturing at the contemporary music seminars at Darmstadt (1957), Stockhausen gave lectures and concerts in Europe and North America.