Karlheinz Stockhausen
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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. He is known for his grou
Stockhausen in the Electronic Music Studio of the WDR, 1994
Altenberger Dom, c. 1925, where Stockhausen had his first music lessons
Stockhausen in the garden of his home in Kürten, 2005
Stockhausen lecturing at the 12th International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt, 1957
Olivier Messiaen
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Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist. One of the major composers of the 20th century, he was also an outstanding teacher of composition and musica
Karlheinz Stockhausen
…composition, and for musical spatialization. Stockhausen was educated at the Hochschule für Musik Köln and the University of Cologne, later studying with Olivier Messiaen in Paris and with Werner Meyer-Eppler at the University of Bonn. As one of the leading figures of the Darmstadt School, his compositions and theories…
Messiaen in 1937
Messiaen with his mother and father in 1910
Paul Dukas's composition class at the Paris Conservatoire, 1929. Messiaen sits at the far right; Dukas stands at the centre.
Église de la Sainte-Trinité, Paris, where Messiaen was titular organist for 61 years